Impact Week is a non-profit program which unites people from a variety of countries to develop sustainable business models using Design Thinking. The organization is rapidly growing around the globe, from one location in 2015 to eight in 2019. This growth can both be challenging and inspiring. Here are some insights into the experiences SAP colleagues made while volunteering for Impact Week in 2018, and a first glimpse at the program for 2019.
Providing a delightful user experience is what makes SAP Screen Personas a key tool for bringing the SAP Fiori UX to your organization. SP09 delivers several features designed to streamline the day to day activities of end-users.
Take your chance to join early product discussions with SAP’s product teams. Through the SAP Customer Engagement Initiative you can get an early insight into what’s planned by SAP and influence the development of new functionalities. Register now for a new set of 71 different projects until June 28th to get in touch with the teams.
SAP Fiori has come a long way since its introduction to the marketplace over half a decade ago. When we talk about SAP Fiori today, we are referring to a comprehensive design system for enterprise software.
SAP Fiori 3 is SAP’s new target design system, which evolves the SAP Fiori design for all SAP products to fully support the Intelligent Suite, running on any device. Rather than holding back some of the innovations and delivering everything later in one big bang, SAP has chosen to deliver the SAP Fiori 3 innovations […]
Next SAP Fiori Makers call on May 2nd: 2BMs Fiori application for Contract Management In this call Sebastian Molding Bork and Sarah Deloughery from the SAP partner 2BM showcase a custom-built SAP Fiori app for Service Contract Management. See how 2BM elegantly designed a Fiori application for a very complex customer use case. After the project […]
The new March version of the SAP Fiori Road Map is now available. It is published on www.sap.com/roadmaps (search for “Fiori”). As before, the SAP Fiori Road Map gives a holistic overview of SAP’s plans, covering design, technology (including design & development tools) and application road maps. It also includes some highlights from the SAP […]
The DSAG Technology Days 2019 took place on February 12th and 13th at the World Conference Center Bonn with about 2500 participants. The motto of this year’s Technology Days was: “Do IT yourself. Paths to the Cloud: thinking together, acting individually” Over the course of the first day, there was a dedicated User Experience track […]
Over 600 attendees came together for the fifth SAP UX Day in Karlsruhe, Germany, to explore what it means to humanize technology and discuss the responsibilities of designers
Designing for inclusion means continuously asking the right questions in an effort to push the boundaries of software design and pave the way for a future where no user gets left behind.
Next SAP Fiori Makers call on Tuesday, March 5: How “Felipe” helps to Simplify Financial Project Planning In this call, Ann-Isabell Heitmann, IT Chief Product Owner for “Services Delivery” at SAP, showcases their custom-built SAP Fiori app “FELIPE”. This app includes great design-solutions to make the complex field of financial project planning and forecasting an intuitive […]
August Engkilde and Martin Pock from 2BM. They give a project report of their design-driven approach for their customer SKOV. They present how they have designed an offline-enabled mobile application meeting the needs of service workers for large climate systems at chicken and pig farms worldwide. In addition to the showcase presentation, Kai Richter, Chief Designer for SAP Fiori at SAP, explains how […]
Thomas Nelissen from Flexso gives a project report of their design-driven approach for their customer KSB. They present how employees can plan their flex-budget for benefits like company cars, mobile phones or additional vacation days and simulate the impact on their salary. In addition to the showcase presentation, Rainer Filsinger, Fiori Design Expert at SAP Design, explains how to apply […]
In 2002, SAP introduced the SAP Accessibility Standard. This standard defined the requirements and processes necessary to create SAP products that were accessible to everyone.
The new December versions of the SAP Fiori Road Map and SAP CoPilot Road Map are now available. They are published on www.sap.com/roadmaps (search for “Fiori” or “CoPilot”). As before, the SAP Fiori Road Map gives a holistic overview of SAP’s plans covering design, technology (including design & development tools), and application road maps. It also includes some highlights from […]
Imagine you write something down at a meeting. What if the paper wrote back to you with an answer? Introducing SAP Inscribe, a new user experience for the Intelligent Enterprise. Explore ideas by writing, scribbling, or drawing on your touchscreen device, while at the same time connecting with real-time analytics using SAP Smart Business for SAP S/4 HANA.
The Design Center of Expertise team at SAP Labs Latin America conceived the Design Week 2018, the second edition for a series of talks, lectures and trainings that aimed to inspire teams to apply design practices in their daily jobs.
With the end of the year rapidly approaching, we here on the SAP Screen Personas team are looking back on our past 12 months of product development. To sum it up in two words: thank you.
Ever wished for a mobile UI development mentor, as an app?! Be among the first to experience the new SAP Fiori Mentor app. Even the best designs need debugging – help us usability-test our prototype!
MOD Pizza, a U.S.-based company offering super-fast custom artisan-style pizzas, uses SAP CoPilot, the digital assistant and bot integration hub for the enterprise, to run more efficient IT support processes. This helps ensure smooth collaboration across SAP applications on SAP S/4HANA and gives the company extra time to focus on what matters most: putting people […]
Most of the colleagues who have seen them, remember them – the Design Talk posters with the tilted title. Their creator, SAP Visual Designer Timo Bess, now won the prestigious Red Dot design award for them. So, who is the man behind the posters?
Accelerating Design Thinking across large organizations worldwide by connecting the catalysts is the key credo of the Design at Business Community. Founded by SAP, Nestlé, and Philips, about 6 years ago, the community currently has members from more than 130 organizations and 700+ members worldwide.
Next SAP Fiori Makers call on December 13th: Plauts Fiori applications for leave request and expenses In this call, Simon Kemp, SAP Mentor & SAP UX Lead at Plaut IT Australia showcases two custom-built SAP Fiori apps to handle leave requests and expenses to cater to the specific requirements of Plaut IT Australia. After Simon’s introduction […]
This award-winning course, Copywriting: Improve User Experience One Word at a Time, has reopened at openSAP, providing you with an additional opportunity to improve your copywriting skills for your website or app. The words that you use throughout your app or site are just as important as the interaction and visual design. But the words – […]
On September 17, 2018, the UX Enablement group (a team of user researchers, designers, and design educators) at SAP Design in Palo Alto, United States, hosted a Bay area meet-up event in partnership with Hexagon UX.
On the Wednesday of TechEd Las Vegas, 77 SAP Screen Personas fans met for an evening of dinner, drinks, and user experience transformation. The event brought together a variety of customers, employees, and partners representing 16 of the industries served by SAP.
In the age of “disruptive innovation,” American office furniture manufacturer Steelcase is creating products that don’t just push the boundaries of design and craftsmanship but serve as a platform to articulate identity. But what does this mean for SAP employees?
Next SAP Fiori Makers call on October 11: ConvergentIS’s Fiori application for simplified purchase requisitions. In this call, Brad Braun, Partner and Vice President at Convergent IS, showcases a custom-built SAP Fiori app that enables their customer, Freeman, to handle purchase requisitions in a very simple way. After Brad’s introduction to the project, Georg Christoph, […]
Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) machines are responsible for crafting objects the world relies on daily, including everything from jet engines to mobile phones. Capable of mass producing objects with near exact precision through programmed actions, the machines have increased production speed and efficiency within the manufacturing sector. However, industry leaders are on the cusp of […]
By leveraging real-time analyses of people’s cognitive state, the system can give users helpful feedback about their cognitive load, stress and attention levels.
This year we have some great news about exploring SAP TechEd content. It couldn’t be easier for participants to find all the relevant content for the tracks that interest them as SAP is offering 35 first-rate Learning Journeys across eight conference tracks – one of which is titled, Consumer Grade Experience (CGE). Listen to Christoph Liebig, […]
Impact Week, a non-profit intercultural Design Thinking program, was recognized as one of 100 “Excellent Places in the Land of Ideas”. Sponsored by the German initiative “Germany — Land of Ideas”, the prestigious award goes to projects that connect worlds and strengthen solidarity. SAP Design experts volunteered as Design Thinking coaches, contributing their expertise in Kigali, Rwanda and Bogota, Colombia.
The SAP Fiori Design Guidelines for web applications have been updated. The latest version includes new features implemented with SAPUI5 release 1.56, and numerous updates to the guidelines for existing UI elements and patterns. New with this edition UI element states When should you gray out an input field and when should you hide it? […]
Join this free, online openSAP course ‘Be Visual! Sketching Basic for IT Business’ and start learning the very basics of sketching. By applying the practice-oriented tips and tricks in this course, you’ll gain the confidence to present your ideas visually. Sketching helps you to communicate abstract ideas and transform them into tangible artifacts that can […]
Societal developments and the digital era require key players to constantly evolve and stay innovative. In 2017, Rolls-Royce’s business unit Power Systems therefore started collaborating with SAP to introduce design thinking in their company. The set goal: transforming the innovation culture at Rolls-Royce Power Systems. What began as a UX topic in IT, turned into an organization-wide new mindset change.
The multidisciplinary teams at ART+COM push the boundaries of art and technology in spectacular installations that communicate complex information interactively
The latest edition of the SAP Fiori Design Guidelines for web applications is now available, with new content based on SAPUI5 releases 1.52 and 1.54. For an overview of all new and updated content, see the two articles What’s New in Guideline Version 1.52 and What’s New in Guideline Version 1.54. Highlights of this edition Font “72”The latest SAP Fiori […]
Next SAP Fiori Makers call on August 16: Flexso’s Fiori application for flexible reward planning at KBC Bank In this call, Thomas Nelissen, SAP Developer & Solution Architect at Flexso showcases a custom-built SAP Fiori app called Flex plan, which was designed to help KBC’s employees to plan the usage of their flexible rewards part of their salary. […]
Join this free open online course to learn the skills required to create a mobile application with SAP Screen Personas. SAP Screen Personas allows you to simplify classic ERP screens in SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Suite on HANA, or SAP ERP. The latest release of SAP Screen Personas includes the Slipstream Engine: a component that […]
On June 8, the SAP AppHaus Heidelberg hosted its fifth annual Open House Day. For the first time, the AppHaus joined the Uncover DesignFest, offering an inside view of a unique space where design meets business. Located in Heidelberg’s historic Landfried tobacco factory, the SAP AppHaus captured a diverse group of visitors with its compelling atmosphere and distinctive, […]
The new May version of the SAP Fiori Road Map is now available – as is the very first stand-alone SAP CoPilot Road Map. They are published on www.sap.com/roadmaps (search for “Fiori” or “CoPilot”). As before, the SAP Fiori Road Map gives a holistic overview of SAP’s plans, covering design, technology (including design & development tools) and application […]
Implanting Digital Ethics into our artificial intelligence and making it transparent, trustworthy and controllable are key aspects of designing for AI.
Join us on stage at SAPPHIRENOW + ASUG Annual Conference in Orlando from 5-7 June. Meet SAP's experts in various sessions on the latest UX and design related topics.
Design Thinking has become a widely used approach to foster innovation and creativity, often acting as catalyst for change and growth both on an organizational and personal level. Good reasons for SAP Design to support the Impact Weeks in Rwanda and Colombia, a two-week Design Thinking program.
Dear SAP customers, dear SAP partners: Once again, you have the opportunity to join early product discussions with SAP’s product teams. Through the SAP Customer Engagement Initiative you can get an early insight into what’s planned by SAP and influence the development of new functionality. Projects cover a variety of SAP solutions in addition to […]
Our expectations for intelligent systems to understand us, help us, and connect with us on an emotional level will increase exponentially in the coming years.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PtdPTRdBKSUVideo can’t be loaded: Maintenance Execution with SAP S/4HANA (https://youtube.com/watch?v=PtdPTRdBKSU) Maintenance is a key component in SAP’s application suite. Maintenance planning and execution are core functionalities in SAP S/4HANA (on-premise) and SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Beyond the core, additional functionality for planning and scheduling is available, with which users can automate scheduling and execution […]
How can organizations go beyond spending money in a financial capacity and create real impact? A central question to nonprofit efforts, this is how Heather Hooper, Director of the Sharks Foundation (the charitable arm of the San Jose Sharks professional ice hockey team), opened a design thinking workshop with SAP North America’s Corporate Social Responsibility […]
Our journey to revolutionize business with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to what we now call the “intelligent enterprise.” This means that machines will increasingly take over the tasks that they do best. Luckily for us, those tasks are mostly repetitive, mundane, and dreary. Stuff we probably didn’t want to be […]
This blog is the first of our “In a nutshell” series in which we show how the user experience for a familiar business process is improved by using SAP Fiori in SAP S/4HANA. https://youtube.com/watch?v=G1Zi3ygBQ-IVideo can’t be loaded: Incident Management with SAP S/4HANA Asset Management for Environment, Health, and Safety (https://youtube.com/watch?v=G1Zi3ygBQ-I) For many companies, “incident management” is synonymous with “recording and reporting of […]
As I stepped up to my new role as Chief Design Officer at SAP at the beginning of this month, I reflected on the words of Leonardo da Vinci, who said “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” This […]
Take part in the SAP Fiori & SAP CoPilot Roadshow 2018 and have SAP’s UX ambassadors joining you for a day or two full of inspiring sessions with SAP CoPilot, the digital assistant and bot integration hub for the enterprise, in the spotlight.
Digital assistants, intelligent enterprise and machine learning – dive deep into some of the most important technology tends at ASUG Annual Conference in Orlando on Monday, June 4, 2018. Reserve your seat soon.
Update: The new name for E-Quill was revealed on June 6th at SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando. It is now officially called “SAP Inscribe.” See the demo presented during Bill McDermott’s keynote. Toward the end of this year, SAP Inscribe will be available in beta for select customers; general availability is planned for early 2019 on S/4 HANA. Customers interested in […]
The new February version of the SAP Fiori Road Map is now available. It is published on www.sap.com/roadmaps (search for “Fiori”), and gives a holistic overview of SAP’s plans, covering design, technology (including design & development tools) and application road maps. Note that you may have to register with sap.com in order to look at […]
Modern, open-ended video games dazzle players with exciting and immersive experiences. SAP listens to Matthew Tomkinson of Ubisoft to find out how they do it.
This free online course focuses on design testing, also known as user testing, usability testing, user acceptance testing, validation, among other terms. You’ll learn about the importance of testing your software designs with real users and implementing their feedback early in the design phase. Learn how to test your designs and design ideas with feedback […]
Customer acceptance of the new technologies we hear about every day depends on how users will experience them. The design community at SAP has a major role to play.
itelligence Germany and NTT DATA present their joint IoT project “Parcel Tracking Cockpit”, using SAP Fiori to make their concept of future logistics networks ready for customers.
The winners have been chosen and SAP is very pleased that “Data Encounter” has been honored with this year’s UX Design Award | Public Choice! The UX Design Awards are an annual competition hosted by the International Design Center Berlin. The Awards recognize excellent experience qualities in products, services, environments and future-oriented concepts. Particular focus […]
Dear SAP customers, dear SAP partners: Once again, you have the opportunity to join early product discussions with SAP’s product teams. Through the SAP Customer Engagement Initiative you can get an early insight into what’s planned by SAP and influence the development of new functionality. Projects cover a variety of SAP solutions in addition to […]
Recently, my colleague Noboru Ota drew attention to a new procurement comparison video in our series, and now we have added another finance scenario: SAP S/4HANA Financial Balance Sheet – Profit and Loss Analysis. It is also based on our latest on-premise release, SAP S/4HANA 1709. Many of you, may already be familiar with the […]
Some keen observers of the SAP space are already familiar with the series of YouTube clips that compare the UX of our classical SAP ERP (SAP GUI) and S/4HANA (SAP Fiori). We have already covered the following scenarios in this series. Sales Order Fulfillment End-to-End Inventory Management Produce real-time MRP insights One of them was […]
As Andrew Ng, adjunct professor at Stanford, describes it, “AI is the next electricity, and there is no going back.” Just as electricity has changed many industries since it was introduced, so will AI. Therefore, it is important for individuals and businesses to understand this powerful technology, to ask the right questions, and to make the right […]
"Customer insights are the true enabler for crafting valuable experiences through our products" says Doug Beaudet, Vice President of Global Experience Design at Honeywell, at the 22nd SAP Design Talk.
The latest edition of the SAP Fiori Design Guidelines is now available. This double-issue covers SAPUI5 versions 1.48 and 1.50, and comes with some exciting new content and numerous updates. Alongside the most recent SAP Fiori patterns, floorplans, and UI elements, you’ll find the latest design stencils and SAP Fiori icon fonts. We’ve also listened […]
SAP Screen Personas 3.0 SP6 includes an all-new component, Slipstream Engine, which enables mobile rendering. This has been a long-standing request from our customers and partners.
The course "Be Visual! Sketching Basic for IT Business" is a 4-week online course where you can learn tips and tricks to communicate visually. The course starts February 6, 2018!
In a new podcast series, learn about design’s role in innovation, culture, and technology and how SAP is leveraging it internally and with customers. Many organizations are in the midst of disrupting their business by re-imagining business models, business processes, and the way they work. Re-imagining everything requires an innovation mindset and there’s an […]
If you are a regular visitor, you might notice that a little bit has changed since the last time you were here. Let me sum up the recent changes: Improved access to all things SAP Fiori: We have a new page dedicated to SAP Fiori. Right up there at the top of the navigation bar you can find […]
72, the typeface created to be the design language for all SAP products and digital channels, has won a Red Dot Award in the communication design category.
Join this free online course to learn about SAP Translation Hub, one-stop shop for multilingual UI text services. Learn how to prepare texts for translation in different development environments, translate the texts, and incorporate the translations in the development environments. This course will also allow learners to watch the videos with subtitles in German, French, […]
The November update of the SAP Fiori Road Map is available now. You can also find the road map on www.sap.com/roadmaps under Cross Topics. It gives a holistic overview of SAP’s plans, covering design, technology (including design & development tools) and application road maps, and has been updated in all areas. This version includes SAP Hybris Marketing for the […]
Agenda Next stop: Barcelona! After two successful events in Las Vegas and Bangalore, we are excited to meet you now in the beautiful city of Barcelona. Here again, we will introduce you to many hot topics. Learn about UX and Design from the SAP experts at first-hand. Meet our experts beforehand and get inspired which session you […]
SAP Cloud for Real Estate, a new cloud solution for corporate real estate management, was awarded the prestigious Red Dot Design Award 2017 for Communication Design, chosen from more than 8,000 entries across the globe. Its design team strives for putting the real estate topic from maintenance mode back into the limelight of enterprise software and creating the best possible user experience for real estate managers.
SAP’s Chief Design officer said that “SAP Screen Personas remains the fastest way to create the Fiori experience”. To bring that message to you, Sam has recorded a 2-minute video.
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