Editions and Highlight Topics – Overview

Updated: February 15, 2012

Editions offer article collections dedicated to a UI-related topic in the SAP environment. Highlight topics are collections of related articles that had been published on the SAP Design Guild before and are now offered under a common framework.

Below, you will find the latest editions and highlight topics that were published on the SAP Design Guild Website.

 

Highlight Topic 3: Designing for a Sustainable Future

Published July 7, 2011; updated December 22, 2011

Rural landscapeWe would like to continue the tradition of publishing highlight topics on the SAP Design Guild with a collection of articles focusing on the topic of how design can support sustainability. Sustainability has been a prominent topic in the "real" world for decades already. In recent years, this topic has also become more visible in the HCI community – reason enough to devote more attention to it on the SAP Design Guild Website.

This time, we released the highlight topic already at an early state, that is, with a collection of relatively few articles. We extended it in the course of the following months and closed the "active" phase of the highlight topic at the end of 2011.

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Edition 11: 10th Anniversary Edition

Published March 3, 2010; updated June 22, 2011

This is the eleventh edition of the SAP Design Guild Website, and it is a very special one. It commemorates the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Website in April 2010 and will be our special way of celebrating this event.

The overall theme will be current and future trends in HCI, UI design, or user experience – whichever term suits you and our authors best. We have deliberately left the topic somewhat vague so that both external and SAP authors can join us and contribute articles to the edition.

SAP Design Guild homepages in 2000 and 2010

Aligning with our editorials, the articles will be written in conversational style. Rather than discussing topics in-depth, their aim will be to provide "food for thought" and for possible further articles that cover topics in-depth in other sections of our Website.

All in all, this edition will be an adventure for the SAP Design Guild team and for our visitors. Although we have done some planning and preparation work in advance and have produced an outline of possible articles to come, we will be starting off with no real idea of how the edition will actually look in the end. But that's what makes this adventure such an exciting one.

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Highlight Topic 2: Human Performance at the Computer

Published November 13, 2008; updated March 4, 2010

Humans at the computerOur second highlight topic is devoted to human performance at the computer and includes topics such as responsiveness, perceived performance, and busy feedback. The articles have been published in different areas of the SAP Design Guild over the course of about one year and are now presented within a coherent framework for easier access.

We have also provided a few new articles, including a glossary, a list of references and links, and a collection of performance analogies. We will also follow the tradition of the first highlight topic Universal Usability and add a few new articles over the course of the year 2009.

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Edition 10: SAP User Experience

Published December 21, 2006; updated February 15, 2012

With this tenth edition we would like to depart somewhat from previous editions and feature the SAP User Experience (SAP UX) team, led by Dan Rosenberg since mid-2005, and its work.

SAP User Experience

In this edition we would like to show two aspects of the SAP UX team. First we would like to present a series of successful projects completed by SAP UX team members, which demonstrate how the team's work has impacted SAP's software development and how this work will lead to substantial improvements with respect to usability and user experience. Secondly, we have collected a handful of SAP UX-related articles that have already been published in the SAP Design Guild and put them in one place, thus providing our readers with a better overview of the SAP UX team's work and the principles that it follows. One cornerstone principle is the new User-Centered Design process (UCD process) that is currently being rolled out at SAP and discussed in several articles. Our new standards and guidelines for SAP's user interface will follow.

You will also see that the SAP UX team is a truly global team. It is spread out all over the world – from Palo Alto, USA to Walldorf, Germany, Sofia, Bulgaria, Ra'anana, Israel, Bangalore, India, and Shanghai, China.

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