View the presentation (1188KB PDF).
Date: Wednesday,
19 April 2006
Time: 6:30pm - refreshments, 7:00pm - talk
Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions),
Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room.
Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is
only $10/year.
Pre-build UI
components have a number of advantages for UI development, however the benefits
anticipated with this approach, speed and consistency, can be lost on the end
user. The real value for this approach is for the developer; maximizing their
productivity. But speed and consistency in the development process alone does
not result in a better user experience. Development teams need to spend time
up front working with the end users so they can understand their needs, work
environments, and activities. At the same time the granularity and modularity
of the components themselves determine how effective the approach will be in
creative effective user experiences. How better to build out the component
library than base it on how users' work than on the functionality of the underlying
system? If the number of blocks is too few, or granularity is too course, then
the resulting user experience with these pre-built components can feel more
like a "Procrustean Bed" than a system tailored to meet their needs
The talk will explain how SAP solves these problems and will include hand-on
experience feedback.
Joerg leads the user experience group of Emerging Solutions, an innovative
development organization at SAP Labs, Palo Alto which is focused on new emergent
trends in business applications. Joerg joined SAP in 1997 and became responsible
for managing strategic design projects within the ENJOY SAP initiative. After
establishing user centered design as part of SAP's best practices in requirements
engineering, he moved to the Enterprise Portal group where he specialized in
user productivity and work group support in business applications.
Joerg currently manages the user experience design group supporting xApps -
SAP's first generation of composite applications. In his architectural role,
he is committed to promoting new ideas and innovative solutions for frameworks
that improve the user experience in business applications.
Joerg holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, from Technical University in Darmstadt.
He recently published a book on Designing Composite Applications (Beringer & Holtzblatt,
2006, ISBN: 159229-0655)
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