With the availability of the Quartz Dark theme we take the next step on the SAP Fiori 3 journey, evolving the award-winning SAP Fiori design for all SAP products to fully support the Intelligent Suite, running on any device. This first version of the theme is included in SAPUI5 1.72 and is available with SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2002.
SAP is a global company and the scope of our UX teams reaches far and wide. In the Behind UX and SAP Design series, we home in on some of our locations and give a glimpse into the working and cultural life there. Today we’re starting with Dublin!
This post takes you through my journey as a conversation designer and the collective effort of my team in designing the conversational experience of “Ewa”, our chatbot for SAP EarlyWatch Alert. This will give you an overview of the design process we followed from our initial design thinking workshop with customers and SAP colleagues leading all the way up to building our 1st version.
Returning to school on the East Coast has been an interesting transition but the experience has provided some great insights into balancing school and work and the benefits of working remotely. Working from the North American HQ in Newtown Sq, PA. has been a great opportunity to meet new people and take a look at what I have learned about SAP Design.
SAP is a global company and the scope of our design teams reaches far and wide. In the SAP Design Live & Work series, we home in on some of our locations and give a glimpse into the working and cultural life there. Today, it’s about Bangalore / India.
SAP Fiori is a design system that provides a consistent user experience for SAP software across platforms and devices. How do the different pieces of the design system work together? How did we get to the designs we have today?
Gavdi Labs replaced a complete on-premise HR Portal with SAP Fiori apps for customer Novo Nordisk Subscibe for SAP Fiori Makers to get the call invitations! Go to SAP Fiori Makers >> In this call, August Engkilde, Principal Consultant at Gavdi Labs in Denmark, showcases how they replaced a complete on-premise HR portal with SAP Fiori […]
SAP teamed up with adidas, one of its strategic partners, for a four-day boot camp to work on use cases that emerged from their retail business. Twenty-two participants, including developers, UX designers, and managers, came together at the adidas headquarters to work on a co-innovation project in the context of a larger migration project to […]
The purpose of SAP Screen Personas is to give users the ability to simplify classic transactions and business processes to make their end-users’ daily lives easier, faster, and less complicated. Don't just take my word, take a look at what some of our customers are saying about SAP Screen Personas.
SAP invited around 100 services and channel partners from the DACH region to its headquarters in Walldorf to showcase current topics and tools related to user experience. The event gave valuable insights into SAP’s latest developments, such as SAP Fiori 3, SAP Conversational AI, and rapid SAP Fiori activation.
Next SAP Fiori Makers call on Tuesday, October 22nd: A visual way of keeping track of your time sheet In this call Jochen Kranzdorf from Swisscom in Switzerland showcase a custom-built SAP Fiori app for a well-known use-case. His team built this application as part of a series of more than 50 SAP Fiori apps. […]
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.
One of the most interesting areas of neuroscience today focuses on interpreting signals from the brain through mobile, wearable headsets. The signals these devices detect can be used to gauge attention and stress levels as well as to receive mental commands from the wearer. https://youtu.be/-CUWZk3fNloVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: How SAP and […]
The new collaboration between SAP Design and SAP Knowledge and Education and EMOTIV, the leading personalized neuroinformatics company. Let’s be honest, if your company sends out an invite to all its employees to participate in the exact same mandatory safety training, chances are, despite acknowledging how important safety is, you’re going to be quite reluctant […]
With SAP S/4HANA 1909 and the SAP Fiori front-end server 6.0, we take on-premise customers on the first step of the SAP Fiori 3 journey, which evolves the award-winning SAP Fiori design for all SAP products to fully support the Intelligent Suite, running on any device.
At SAP Design, we want to improve people’s lives by creating elegant experiences, scaling design to amplify its impact, and shaping the next generation of enterprise leaders. But how do we achieve that? The Creative Lab team sought to create this video series to share the motivations and passions of our colleagues. We have asked […]
In this episode, our panel experts, Roger Baxter (SAP) and Dr. Elizabeth ErkenBrack (Senior XM Scientist for Qualtrics) will join host Bonnie D. Graham discuss the impact of experience management for the product development cycle and how XO data can bring the user experience to the next level.
This year’s TechEd again focuses on learning journeys to help you navigate the many lecture and hands-on sessions based on your goals. For the user experience track, we have three learning journeys: UX1: Become the UX transformation champion in your company UX2: Design and develop SAP Fiori apps UX3: Implement and run a great UX […]
With SAP S/4HANA 1908 we take you on the first step of the SAP Fiori 3 journey, which evolves the award-winning SAP Fiori design for all SAP products to fully support the Intelligent Suite, running on any device.
In a cross-functional project team, business and IT designed a cockpit that turned into a pioneering example for building BASF’s digital future. Using an SAP HANA sidecar approach, SAP helped to bring real-time exception-based process optimization to BASF’s customer service leveraging the benefits of an Intelligent Enterprise even before the migration to SAP S/4 HANA.
Next SAP Fiori Makers call on Tuesday, August 6th: Controling a private IOT craft brewery with a Fiori application In this call Simen Larsen-Frivoll and Seline Tomt from the SAP partner EY Skye in Norway showcase a pretty unique custom-built SAP Fiori app. They built a application to mange and replicate the entire brewing process of […]
Learn about how SAP Fiori is helping Swisscom, one of Switzerland’s top telecommunications and IT companies, transform its internal employee portal into a modern and on-the-go user Experience.
Hitz Patel – Capgemini UK’s Head of SAP design – showcased an SAP Fiori project, they have done together with their customer Yorkshire Water. The use case of the app includes the data capture and data governance by partners, that build assets for Yorkshire Water during capital projects. The showcased application includes current SAP Fiori layouts/floorplans like the Overview Page and […]
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.
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