List of Articles on the SAP Design Guild Website

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Last update: 05/08/2011 • By Gerd Waloszek

On this page, I offer a complete list of articles that I wrote for the SAP Design Guild website. I list articles in alphabetical order.

A

10th Anniversary Edition (Nearly) Complete (Community, Editorials)
10th Anniversary of SAP Design Guild (Community, Editorials)
2002 – The SAP Design Guild Meets Accessibility and More... (Community, Editorials)
A Layman's View on Interaction Styles – Part I (Community, Design Tidbits) • A Layman's View on Interaction Styles – Part II (Community, Design Tidbits)
A Walk Through Some Buzzwords (Community, Editorials)
Access by Design (Book review; Community, Books & People) • Access by Design (Book review; Editions, Highlight Topic 1)
Accessibility Glossary (Editions, Edition 9) • Accessibility Glossary (more recent; Resources, Goodies)
Acronyms and Glossary (Editions, Edition 7)
Adding Value to Your Interface by Using Simple Math and Matching (Community, Design Tidbits)
Anti-Simplification – How to Make Life Harder for Users (Community, Design Tidbits)
Addressing a "Design Issue:" Start-Up Time (Community, Design Tidbits) • Addressing a "Design Issue:" Start-Up Time (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Aging and Technology – A Personal Account (Editions, Edition 11)
Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Announcing the 10th Anniversary Edition (Community, Editorials)
Anti-Simplification – How to Make Life Harder for Users (Community, Design Tidbits)
Appendix: Fighting (with) Hierarchies – Presentation Techniques I (Community, Design Tidbits) • Appendix: Fighting (with) Hierarchies – Presentation Techniques II (Community, Design Tidbits)

B

Boris Becker as Usability Consultant for SAP? (Community, Editorials)
Brand Adaptation of the mySAP Enterprise Portal (Editions, Edition 6)
Branding – An Unscientific Survey (Editions, Edition 6)
Branding – Links and Other Resources Editions, (Edition 6)
Branding Glossary (more recent; Resources, Goodies) • Branding Glossary (Editions, Edition 6)
Breathing New Life into the SAP Design Guild (Community, Editorials)
Bridging the Gap – Part I: Introduction (Community, Design Tidbits)
Bridging the Gap – Part II: Mapping Approaches (Community, Design Tidbits)
Bridging the Gap – Part III: Structural Approaches (Community, Design Tidbits)
Bringing Design to Software (Book review; Community, Books & People)

C

CHI 2001 – A Collection of Very Subjective Snippets (Community, Stories)
CHI 2002 – Changing the World, Changing Ourselves (Community, Stories)
CHI 2003 – New Horizons, But What Are They? (Community, Stories)
CHI 2004 – A Personal Report (Community, Stories)
CHI 2005 – Spotting the Trends... (Community, Stories)
CHI 2006 – A Selective Reflection... (Community, Stories)
CHI 2008 Report – Not Only a Rant... (Community, Stories)
Collaboration Glossary (Editions, Edition 5)
Color Glossary (Resources, Goodies)
Concept Statements and Website Messages – Part I (Community, Design Tidbits) • Concept Statements and Website Messages – Part II (Community, Design Tidbits)
Contextual Design (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Crossing Boundaries with Composite Applications (Editions, Edition 7)

D

Design for the Elderly – Getting Started (Editions, Edition 11)
Design is the Problem (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Design is the Solution – From Visual Clarity to Clarity in the Mind (Editions, Edition 11)
Design Meets Disability (Book review; Community, Books & People) • Design Meets Disability (Book review; Editions, Highlight Topic 1)
Design Research (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Designing for A Work Force That Acts More Sustainably – Part 1 (Editions, Edition 11)
Design for the Elderly – Some Tightrope Walks (Editions, Edition 11)
Designing Interactions (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Designing the User Interface (4th Ed.) (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Designing the User Interface (5th Ed.) (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Designing with the Mind in Mind (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Desktop Motives (1): Lofoten 2003 (Goodies)
Desktop Motives (4): Lofoten 2004, the North Cape, and More (Goodies)
Desktop Motives (6): Southern Germany (Goodies)
Desktop Motives (7): Mostly Swedish Skies 2007 – Part 1 (Goodies)
Desktop Motives (8): Mostly Swedish Skies 2007 – Part 2 (Goodies)
Desktop Motives (9): Skies from Southern France 2007 (Haut Loire) (Goodies)
Desktop Motives (10): Sweden 2008 – Part 1 (Diverse Locations) (Goodies)
Desktop Motives (11): Sweden 2008 – Part 2 (Öland) (Goodies)
Desktop Motives (12): DSRL Macros (2006-2009) (Goodies)
Desktop Motives (13): Digicam Macros 2009 – Part 1 (Goodies)
Desktop Motives (14): Digicam Macros 2009 – Part 2 (Goodies)
Desktop Motives (15): Ice, Snow, and Trees (Goodies)
Did You Make Your Selection? – Part I (Community, Design Tidbits) • Did You Make Your Selection? – Part II (Community, Design Tidbits) • Did You Make Your Selection? – Part III (Community, Design Tidbits) • Did You Make Your Selection? – Part IV (Community, Design Tidbits)
Digital Ground (Book review; Community, Books & People)
DIS 2010 – A UI Design Practitioner's Report (Community, Stories)
Dissolving Boundaries with Distributed Cognition and xApps (Editions, Edition 7)
Don't Let Your Interface Lie (Community, Design Tidbits)
Don't Let Users Suffer from System Weaknesses (Community, Design Tidbits)

E

E-Mail-Driven Work (Community, Editorials)
Effective Prototyping for Software Makers (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Elements of Graph Design (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Error Prevention Comes First (Community, Design Tidbits)
Examples of Poor Responsiveness (Design Tidbits) • Examples of Poor Responsiveness (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)

F

Featured UI & Design People (Community, Books & People)
Fighting (with) Hierarchies – Part I: Basics (Community, Design Tidbits) • Fighting (with) Hierarchies – Part II: Presentation (Community, Design Tidbits)
Final Spurt for 2010 on the SAP Design Guild (Community, Editorials)
Finding Common Ground... (Community, Editorials)
Frequently Asked Questions Home, Info Area)
From GUIs to Narrative Interfaces – From Point-and-Click to Computers Telling Stories (Community, Editorials)

G

Generic Portal Pages – What Do Most Portals Need? (Editions, Edition 3)
Getting in Contact with our Visitors – The SAP Design Guild Survey, May 2002 (Community, Editorials)
Golden Rules for Bad User Interfaces (Community, Design Tidbits)
GUI Bloopers 2.0 (Book review; Community, Books & People)

H

Have You Ever Heard of Performance-Oriented (UI) Design? (Community, Editorials) • Have You Ever Heard of Performance-Oriented (UI) Design? (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Hertzian Tales (Book review; Community, Books & People)
How Much Creativity Can We Generate? (Community, Editorials)
How Much Documentation Do Applications Need? – A Simple Example (Community, Design Tidbits)
Human Performance at the Computer – Part 1: Introduction (Community, Design Tidbits) • Human Performance at the Computer – Part 1: Introduction (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Human Performance at the Computer – Part 2: Making Applications More Responsive (Community, Design Tidbits) • Human Performance at the Computer – Part 2: Making Applications More Responsive (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Human Performance at the Computer – Part 3: Perceived Performance (Community, Design Tidbits) • Human Performance at the Computer – Part 3: Perceived Performance (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Human Performance at the Computer – Part 4: On the Way to Performance-Oriented UI Guidelines (Community, Design Tidbits) • Human Performance at the Computer – Part 4: Towards Performance-Oriented UI Guidelines (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Human-Computer Dialog: How Good Does "Good Enough" Need to Be to Appear "Perfect"? (Community, Design Tidbits)

I

In the Bubble (Community, Books & People)
Information Design (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Information Equivalence and More... (Editions, Edition 4)
Information Visualization (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Information Visualization, (Second Edition) (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Ingredients of Portals – An Overview (Editions, Edition 3)
Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign, Potsdam, Germany (Community, Stories)
INTERACT 2005 – Communicating Naturally Through Computers? (Community, Stories)
INTERACT 2009 – Research & Practice? (Community, Stories)
Introduction to the Highlight Topic "Human Performance at the Computer" (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Introduction to Information Visualization (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Introduction to User Interface Patterns at SAP (Community, Design Tidbits)
Is a Portal a Portal? (Community, Editorials)
Is there such a Thing as Perceived Quality? (Community, Editorials)

J

No articles

K

No articles

L

Leonardo's Laptop (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Links and Other Information Resources on Collaboration (Editions, Edition 5)
Links and References for Narrative User Interfaces (Goodies, Infos & Links)
Links and References for Performance (Goodies, Infos & Links) • Links and References for Performance (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Links for Universal Usability (Goodies, Infos & Links) • Links for Universal Usability (Editions, Highlight Topic 1)
Links on UI, Web, Graphic, and Information Design (Goodies, Infos & Links)
Links on Visualization (Goodies, Infos & Links)
Links to Design Articles and Columns on the Web (Goodies, Infos & Links)
Links to Specific Design Topics & Useful Stuff (Goodies, Infos & Links)
List of Acronyms (Home, Info Area)
Living in Bubbles (Community, Editorials)
Looking Back – The SAP Design Guild in 2000 (Community, Editorials)

M

Making the Web Work (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Making Web Pages Accessible – Questions and HTML Examples (Editions, Edition 4)
My Design Tools – Part I (Community, Design Tidbits) • My Design Tools – Part II (Community, Design Tidbits)

N

Narrative User Interfaces (Community, Design Tidbits)
New Books (Community, Books & People)

O

Optical Illusions (Resources, Goodies)

P

Paper Prototyping (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Participatory IT Design (Book review; Community, Books & People)
People Who are Well-known in the Area of Usability, the Web, and Graphic Design (Community, Books & People)
Performance – Merely A Technical Problem? (Community, Editorials) • Performance – Merely A Technical Problem? (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Performance Analogies (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Performance Glossary (more recent: Goodies, Glossaries) • Performance Glossary (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Performance-Oriented Design and Guidelines (Editions, Edition 11) • Performance-Oriented Design and Guidelines (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Personal Networks (Edition 5)
Portal Usability – Is There Such A Thing? (Editions, Edition 3)
Portals – A Step Beyond the Desktop? (Editions, Edition 1)
Processing – A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists (Book review; Community, Books & People)

Q

Quotes Found for You (Community, Books & People)

R

R/3 History in Screen Shots (Resources))
Reducing Complexity (Community, Design Tidbits)
Reducing TCO with Increased User Productivity (Editions, Edition 8)
Refreshing Three HCI Laws: Fitts' Law, Hick's Law, and the Power Law of Practice (Community, Design Tidbits)
Reporting – Turning Data into Information (Editions, Edition 2)

S

SAP and Accessibility (Resources)
SAP at CHI 2005 in Portland, Oregon (Community, Editorials)
SAP at CHI2006 – Montréal, Québec, Canada (Community, Editorials)
SAP at CHI2007 – San Jose, California (Community, Editorials)
SAP at CHI 2008 – Florence, Italy (Community, Editorials)
SAP at CHI 2011 – Vancouver, Canada (Community, Editorials)
SAP Design Guild – The Voice of SAP in the Design Field (Editions, Edition 8)
SAP is Waiting for You – at CHI 2004, Vienna (Community, Editorials; ghost writer)
SAP Pushes User Productivity (Community, Editorials)
SAP-related Links (Home, Info Area)
SAP UI History (Goodies, SAP UI History)
SAP User Experience at UPA 2010 (Community, Editorial)
SAP's Presence at CHI 2007 in San Jose, California – A Photo Story (Community, Stories) • SAP's Presence at CHI 2007 in San Jose, California – A Photo Story (Editions, Edition 10)
SAP's Presence at CHI 2008 in Florence, Italy – A Photo Story (Community, Stories)
SAP's Presence at DIS 2010 in Aarhus, Denmark – A Photo Story (Community, Stories) • SAP's Presence at DIS 2010 in Aarhus, Denmark – A Photo Story (Editions, Edition 10)
SAP's Presence at UPA 2010 in Munich, Germany – A Photo Story (Community, Stories) • SAP's Presence at UPA 2010 in Munich, Germany – A Photo Story (Editions, Edition 10)
SAP's Presence at World Usability Day 2010 – A Photo Story (Community, Stories) • SAP's Presence at World Usability Day 2010 – A Photo Story (Editions, Edition 10)
Screen Layout – Part I: General Considerations (Community, Design Tidbits) • Screen Layout – Part II: Layout Hierarchy (Community, Design Tidbits) • Screen Layout – Part III: Examples (Community, Design Tidbits)
Semiotic Engineering Glossary (Resources, Goodies)
Shaping Things (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Short History of R/3 Icons (Resources, Visual Design & Icons)
Short History of SAP's Web Applications (Resources)
Sketching User Experiences (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Some Color Mysteries (Community, Design Tidbits)
Some Mysteries of Colored Text (Community, Design Tidbits)
Some Thoughts at the Start of the New Millennium... (Community, Editorials)
Stumbling Blocks for Good Application Design (Community, Editorials)
Sustainability, SAP, and Design...)
SAP Usability Glossary outdated (Resources, Archive )
SAP Web Glossary outdated (Resources, Archive )

T

Technology as Experience (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Technology Connects People! (Community, Editorials)
The Art of Hiding – Part I (Community, Design Tidbits) • The Art of Hiding – Part II (Community, Design Tidbits)
The Blessings of Large Displays... (Community, Editorials)
The Construction Cycle – Another Way to "Organize" the Design Process (Community, Design Tidbits)
The Craft of Information Visualization (Book review; Community, Books & People)
The Design of Everyday Things (Book review; Community, Books & People)
The Logic of the Illogic... (Community, Editorials)
The PeP Project: Evaluating the Responsiveness of SAP Applications from a User-Centered Perspective, Appendix (Community, Stories) • The PeP Project: Evaluating the Responsiveness of SAP Applications from a User-Centered Perspective, Appendix (Editions, Edition 10) • The PeP Project: Evaluating the Responsiveness of SAP Applications from a User-Centered Perspective, Appendix (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
The Plenitude (Book review; Community, Books & People)
The Right Information Right on the Spot (Editions, Edition 1)
The Rocky Road to Innovative Software Products – An Example (Community, Editorials)
The SAP Design Guild at the Turn of the Millennium (Community, Editorials)
The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction (Book review; Community, Books & People)
The Times They Are A-Changin' – So Do The HCI Paradigms (Community, Editorials)
The Web – A Short Introduction (Community, Design Tidbits)
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, a Commented Overview (Editions, Edition 4)
Three Years SAP Design Guild – A Review (Community, Editorials)
To Err Is Human – A Two-Sided Issue... (Community, Editorials)
Top 10 Tips for Using this Site (Home, Info Area)
Two Years SAP Design Guild – The Baby is Up and Running... (Community, Editorials)

U

UI Toolbox: Capturing and Editing Screenshots – Part I (Community, Design Tidbits) • UI Toolbox: Capturing and Editing Screenshots – Part II (Community, Design Tidbits)
Universal Design (Editions, Edition 9) • Universal Design (Editions, Highlight Topic 1)
Universal Remote Console (Editions, Edition 9) • Universal Remote Console (Editions, Highlight Topic 1)
Universal Usability (Book review; Community, Books & People) • Universal Usability (Book review; Editions, Highlight Topic 1)
Universal Usability (Community, Design Tidbits) • Universal Usability (Editions, Highlight Topic 1)
Universal Usability – Revisited (Editions, Edition 11) • Universal Usability – Revisited (Editions, Highlight Topic 1)
Universal Usability Glossary (Goodies, Glossaries) • Universal Usability Glossary (Editions, Highlight Topic 1)
Usability Levels – Three Ways to Care for Usability (Community, Editorials)
User Interface Design – Is it A Science, An Art, or A Craft? (Community, Editorials)
Using Prototypes (Resources, UCD Process)

V

Vision and Visual Disabilities – An Introduction (reprint; Editions, Edition 9 • original version from Editions, Edition 4, 2002) • Vision and Visual Disabilities – An Introductio (Editions, Highlight Topic 1)
Visual Thinking: For Design (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Visualization (Community, Books & People)
Visualization – New Controls and Applications (Community, Books & People)

W

Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 1 (Community, Design Tidbits) • Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 1 (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 2 (Community, Design Tidbits) • Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 2 (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 3 (Community, Design Tidbits) • Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 3 (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Web Usability – Does it Really Matter? (Community, Editorials)
Welcome CHI Attendees to SAP at CHI 2011 (Community, Stories)
What Does "Simple" Mean? (Community, Design Tidbits)
What is an Application Design? (Community, Editorials)
What is the SAP Design Guild? (Home, Info Area)
What Matters Most? (Community, Editorials)
Why Do Computers Make Us Look Stupid? (Community, Editorials)
Windows and Mirrors (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Workplace and MiniApps (Editions, Edition 1)
World Usability Day 2006 – "Making Life Easy" (Photos) (Community, Stories) • World Usability Day 2006 – "Making Life Easy" (Photos) (Editions, Edition 10)

X

xApps Acronyms and Glossary (Editions, Edition 7)

Y

Your Doctor Says: Usable Applications Are Good for Your Health! (Community, Editorials)

Z

No articles