UI Events Page Updated
Today, we updated our UI events page. Now it lists more than a dozen upcoming events.
View ArticleNew" Featured People" Added
Today, we added three more features of UI and design people and also updated our" people" page.
View ArticleNew Editorial: E-Mail-Driven Work
On our author's very first day at SAP, he was introduced to two software applications: R/Mail and Kale. Even though he had some prior experience with e-mail at university, he had no idea how important...
View ArticleResources: SAP User-Centered Design
The page about SAP User-Centered Design has been updated to reflect the new UCD process at SAP.
View ArticleFive New Book Presentations Added
In the course of January and February, including today, we added five new book presentations: (1) Nevin Berger, Michael Arent, Jonathan Arnowitz& Fred Sampson: Effective Prototyping with Excel,...
View ArticleNew Book Presentation
We added one more new book presentation to our Books& People page: Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel& Ulrich Weinberg: Design Thinking (in German). The book has also been included in our book...
View ArticleDesktop Motives (11): Sweden 2008 - (Oeland)
We published the first part of desktop motives from Sweden 2008 (Oeland).
View ArticleDesktop Motives (10): Sweden 2008 - (Diverse Locations)
Today, we published the second part of desktop motives from Sweden 2008 (Diverse Locations).
View ArticleBook Review: Scientific Collaboration on the Internet (Olson, Zimmerman, and...
The book, Scientific Collaboration on the Internet, edited by Olson, Zimmerman, and Bos collects contributions from members of the Science of Collaboratories (SOC) project. This project was set up to...
View ArticleNew Story: Gesture Navigation in Contextual Menus
This report summarizes a design and research project about gesture navigation in contextual menus carried out at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf.
View ArticleBook Review: Handbook of Usability Testing (2nd Edition) (Rubin and Chisnell)
Whether its software, a cell phone, or a refrigerator, your customer wants - no, expects - your product to be easy to use. This fully revised handbook provides clear, step-by-step guidelines to help...
View ArticleBook Review: Desing Thinking (Plattner, Meinel, and Weinberg)
The School of Design Thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany was founded to provide a further study program at HPI. Eighteen months after the school was founded, its first report...
View ArticleUI Guidelines for CRM WebClient User Interface Updated
Today, we updated the UI Guidelines for CRM WebClient User Interface in the Resources section to version 1.6. Please note that the guidelines are in PDF format and about 15 MB in file size.
View ArticleNew Editorial: Living in Bubbles
The author of our latest editorial was inspired by his current slow walking speed to write an editorial about" living in a bubble," actually" living in many bubbles." With this phrase, he intends to...
View ArticleNew Editorial: Technology Connects People!
Many people blame technology, and in particular information technologies, for alienating people. Think of the teenagers who sit in front of their computers playing games all day. Other people,...
View ArticleBook Review: Designing the User Interface, 5th Ed. (Shneiderman, Plaisant,...
If someone asked our author to name a comprehensive book about user interface design, which book would come to mind first? You guessed it: Designing the User Interface by Ben Shneiderman and Catherine...
View ArticleDesign Tidbits: Examples of Poor Responsiveness
In a number of articles, our author has discussed various issues regarding human performance at the computer. Until now, however, he has not provided a list of representative responsiveness issues in...
View ArticleExamples of Poor Responsiveness Also Added to Highlight Topic
The article has also been added to our Highlight Topic" Human Performance at the Computer."
View ArticleDesign Tidbits: Refreshing Three HCI Laws: Fitts' Law, Hick's Law, and the...
When a colleague of our author attended a workshop, she took part in a tutorial held by Bruce Tognazzini, or Tog for short. Among others, Tog presented Fitts' law and was eager to mention that he...
View ArticleDesign Tidbits: Human-Computer Dialog: How Good Does" Good Enough" Need to...
Humans seem to be fairly tolerant to the weaknesses of their human dialog partners, but how do they react when their dialog partner is a computer? Our author's personal impression is that we are not...
View ArticleNew Editorial: Is There Such a Thing as Perceived Quality?
In October 2009, Dan Rosenberg, senior vice president, SAP User Experience, will give a keynote speech at the German Quality Engineering 2009 conference in Frankfurt, Germany, titled" The Human Factor...
View ArticleDesign Tidbits: Bridging the Gap: From Structured Data to UI Designs - Part...
In his editorial" Finding Common Ground..." published at the beginning of 2008, our author touched on the following issue: In the user interface (UI) design field a gap still seems to exist between...
View ArticleDesign Tidbits: Bridging the Gap: From Structured Data to UI Designs - Part...
In a short series of design tidbits, our author presents a couple of approaches to" bridging the gap" between the requirements that have been gathered for a UI design and the concrete design itself....
View ArticleDesign Tidbits: Bridging the Gap: From Structured Data to UI Designs - Part...
In a short series of design tidbits, our author presents a couple of approaches to" bridging the gap" between the requirements that have been gathered for a UI design and the concrete design itself....
View ArticleAccessibility (Overview Article)
In this overview article, authors from SAP's Architecture Governance - Accessibility team provide an overview of accessibility activities and guidelines at SAP, as well as on international...
View ArticleUser-Centered Design (Overview Article)
In this overview article, authors from SAP's UCD team provide an overview of the User-Centered Design process at SAP.
View ArticleUser Interface Guidelines - An Introduction
In this article, the author from SAP's UI Guidelines team highlights the rationale behind SAP current UI guidelines.
View ArticleMajor Update to List of Acronyms
Today we made a major update to our list of acronyms. During the past days we also updated some other pages in the Info Area.
View ArticleStories: The PeP Project - Evaluating the Responsiveness of SAP Applications...
On this Website, we have published quite a few articles discussing performance and responsiveness issues in software applications over the past two years. These more general articles are the...
View ArticleReport on PeP Project Added to SAP UX Edition
The article has also been added to our SAP UX edition.
View ArticleReport on PeP Project Added to Highlight Topic
The article has also been added to our Highlight Topic" Human Performance at the Computer."
View ArticleGlossary Section in Goodies Expanded
Today, we added two more glossaries from others ections of the site to the glossary section in the Goodies. We also updated the look of a number of glossaries to make them more consistent.
View ArticleInfos and Links Section in Goodies Expanded
Today, we also added two more lists from others sections of the site to the infos and links section in the Goodies.
View ArticleBook Review: Design Meets Disability (Graham Pullin)
Graham Pullin characterizes his book as" a book about how the worlds of design and disability could inspire each other." In a brief intro, he uses leg splints made from plywood and designed by Charles...
View ArticleStories: INTERACT 20009 - Research& Practice?
INTERACT 2009, the 12th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction took place in Uppsala, Sweden, the country's oldest university city. This conference has a more European" feel"...
View ArticleBook Review: Introduction to Information Visualization (Riccardo Mazza)
When our author met Robert Spence briefly at the INTERACT 2009 conference in Uppsala, Sweden, Spence mentioned that there was a good book about visualization for display at the Springer book stand....
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