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10/2018
Lilla Hankiss

The good infographic.

What makes an infographic an infographic? Here is a hint: The answer is right in front of you. Yes, you guessed it: It is the information. Meaning, if the graphic’s purpose is not only to be visually appealing and decorative but to also convey some information, then we can talk about an “infographic”.

10/2018
Miriam Krimpmann

Best Practice Concept & Design.

There are lots of new online trends out there. Some go as quick as they came, some stay for longer. Last Round Table – two years ago – we talked about flat design, which is already replaced with material design. Other trends like card layout, split screen or storytelling are still valid and widely seen out there. We will not talk about those trends again, because we want to surprise you with four new topics.

10/2018
Aline Thomé

User Experience Design.

How can our reports be as beautiful as they are intuitive? How can we help our users in finding what they are looking for, instead of getting lost in a sea of information? Those were some of the questions participants from this year’s Round Table were asking themselves. Thus, we wrote this post to share with you what we told them.

09/2018
Thomas Rosenmayr

Online First.

When we talk about Online First, we see this as a new “approach to reporting” rather than a “solution”. Sure, there is a technical dimension to it as it is built on a web-based multi-channel Content Management System. But Online First goes far beyond that tool, it is a new way of approaching corporate reporting. From our perspective this is the most important dimension to explain. In this year’s Round Table, we have therefore decided to focus on the visionary dimension and the rationale behind it. We wanted to explain “how to think online first”.

09/2018
Tobias Eberle

Translation process with XLIFF.

The translation of Annual or Sustainability Reports takes a lot of time and resources. In this post we explain how this process can be improved by using Computer assisted translation (CAT) tools and XLIFF files.

09/2018
Alexandra Baier

Digital Sustainability Report.

With the Sustainability Report 2017, ProSiebenSat.1 went one step further compared to previous years. Instead of the detailed image parts of the Public Value Report 2015/2016 and the following report update 2016, a more detailed report on the sustainability key topics of the Group was published in June 2018. This also led to changes in the development process with the aim of making it as clear and flexible as possible. The entire report was therefore produced as part of our Online FirstTM process, which provides both an online and a PDF version of the report.

09/2018
Eloy Barrantes

Report communication.

It’s somehow a paradox: companies spend hundreds – no: thousands – of hours creating their corporate reports. A lot of time and money goes into concept, copywriting, data collection, image material, photoshootings, production and project management. There is an enormous effort to create the product. But as soon as the report is published, people somehow forget about it. They spend – in comparison – very little time communicating the report.

06/2018
Aline Thomé

UX design: The challenges of designing reports.

As users we open a report looking for something specific. Different stakeholders search for different topics, so there is a lot of relevant information that must be found quickly and easily – which makes everything quite complicated for a designer. As designers our job is to enable our users to find what they want with minimal effort. We have to make our reports so intuitive that finding something is almost an automatic process.