Monthly Highlights from the SAP User Experience Community – Dec 22

In 2015’s last monthly highlights from the SAP User Experience Community post, I’d like to first and foremost wish you all a safe and happy holiday season.

If you’re working on your list of New Year’s resolutions, why not resolve to follow me on twitter @estrblankenship to find out about new posts as soon as they are published?

Here’s what is new on the Community in December:

In Learn the basics about design and user experience:

• Meet Olga, UX Advocate at SAP in my eighth interview with SAP employees in the area of user experience and design.
• In the post, How Cultural Knowledge Can Help You to Succeed in Business, Kirsty White talks about how innovation happens and where it comes from.
• Don’t miss this very popular post, Design, UX, UI … What Is the Difference?, written by Andreas Hauser, Global Head of Design and Co-Innovation Center at SAP. In it, he talks about his work with design, user experience and user interfaces and the confusion that often surrounds these three terms.

In Design News from SAP:  

• What a Great 2015! by Gloria Costa recaps the SAP Design & Co-Innovation Center’s biggest successes and greatest experiences of 2015.
• In Experiencing Service Design – A recap of the Service Experience Camp Berlin Ann-Sofie Ruf reports from Europe’s largest service design conference this year. Find out how SAP contributed to this year’s theme of “struggling for change.”
• In this inspiring post, Believe in Your Dreams – More than Ever as a Refugee, Constanze Reichelt tells her personal story how she made a difference in the life of a an Iraqi refugee in Germany.
• Here’s a riddle for you. What do the cassette tape, electric shavers, neonatal intensive care units, 500 SAP employees, the Walldorf fire department and high-end Dutch furniture design have in common? Find the answer in my post, Paul Gardien of Philips Design Speaks at 2nd SAP Design Talk.
• In late November, about 140 early talents from all over Germany gathered at the Rhein-Neckar Arena in Sinsheim, close to SAP’s headquarters in Walldorf. Find out why in P&I Early Talents Design their Future at SAP by Ann-Sofie Ruf.

So that’s a wrap for 2015. I hope to see you all on the SAP User Experience Community soon!

Best wishes for the holidays,

Esther