About Gerd Waloszek...

After two hip and two cataract surgeries, male with artificial spare parts in his mid-70s, born in the land between the two seas (Schleswig-Holstein).

Gerd Waloszek, Founder and CEO, walodesign (see the Website), hobby mass photographer, sometimes star gazer, chief buyer at home

University and Professional Life

Studied Physics in Braunschweig, assistant at the Psychological Institutes of the universities of Braunschweig and Trier, doctoral dissertation in Trier (built and evaluated a graphic LISP programming environment).

Working for SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany, in the Usability Engineering Center (UEC) since 1993; member of the Product Design Center (PDC) since July 2001, since 2004 User Productivity, since May 2005 User Experience (SAP UX Infrastructure). Responsible for the R/3 Style Guide during the first years; later involved in consulting R/3 applications, touch screen applications, and Web applications (for example, 2 years for the SAP Retail Store, including graphic design consulting); co-initiator of the SAP Design Guild, a SAP Website dedicated to graphic and interaction design; working exclusively for the SAP Design Guild since mid-2000; from 2004 on also working for the SAP-internal User Experience site (first in SAPNet, later in the Corporate Portal). In 2008, also working for the project "Perceived Performance". This project lasted until about mid 2009.

I retired at the end of November 2013.

Conference Visits

In my opinion, conferences mainly serve to get to know the world. See therefore my photos related to conference visits (not from the conferences, but from the cities...).

Visited the CHI conference, the largest conference about software usability, in 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2008. INTERACT visits in 1995, 2005, and 2009 (first paper, together with a colleague), DIS visit in 2010 and Interaction visit in 2012.

Photography and Astronomy

In possession of a camera since about the age of 12 (birthday gift). See my camera history. At the moment, there are only three (more or less) "active" cameras at my disposal (Sony RX10 M4, Sony RX100 M4, Leica M240), because I sold most of my cameras again. Only a few older cameras are still in my possession... I have compiled information about my more or less current cameras (GXR, GR, X Vario, M240, RX100 M4, RX10 M3/4), and also for my wife's current cameras (RX100 M1, TZ202) on this Website.

Each year, and sometimes more often, I create a new calendar from my photos.

Owning several telescopes. I also compiled some information about my telescopes (previous and current ones) on this Website.

Poetry and Truth...

Sometimes I am under rhyming compulsion. Some "results" of this can be found on this Website.

And here one more piece of information about this topic: