An outstanding user interface is an elegant symbiosis of usability, aesthetics and technology. With this goal in mind, our agile team of psychologists, computer scientists and designers manages to think, communicate and create across disciplinary boundaries.

Thomas Immich

Managing Director, Head of Visual Design, Dipl. Computer Scientist (FH)

Thomas Immich is a co-founder and director of Centigrade and responsible for managing the company's visual user interface design division. Thomas holds a Diploma in computer science from the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, having completed his studies of Digital Media with an award-winning thesis on user interface prototyping. Since then Thomas concentrates on user-centered design methods with regard to their technical feasibility and tool support. During this time he worked as a user interface design lead in numerous client projects, consulting development teams in the visual and conceptional optimization of user interfaces.

Simon Albers

Technical Director, Head of Development

Simon Albers is a co-founder and director of Centigrade and in charge of the software development division. He specializes in the programming language Java with a strong focus on graphical user interfaces. During his career he supervised the realization of several customer projects and worked as a consultant for the technical architecture of complex Rich Clients. Several years of work experience in the field of usability engineering and evaluation enable him to elegantly link user-driven requirements and technical feasibility.

Dr. Markus Weber

Usability Engineer, Head of Usability Engineering, Dipl. Psychologist

Markus Weber is responsible for the company’s usability engineering division. He studied at the Saarland University, where he also received a doctorate with a thesis on eye tracking in an eLearning context. In his function as usability engineer, he is concerned with agile usability processes and the efficient cooperation of usability engineers, user interface designers, and developers amongst other things. His activities include the realization of requirements analyses, usability evaluations, and interaction designs which he conducted in numerous projects within different business sectors.

Petra Ripplinger

Administration, Bank Officer and Language Secretary

Petra Ripplinger has a long work experience as personal assistant on management level. As trained bank officer and language secretary she has worked in diverse sectors (chemical industry, advertising, banking) and is therefore perfectly acquainted with all tasks and procedures in modern office management. As first contact person for Centigrade's clients and suppliers, she is in charge of commercial correspondence, time scheduling and all matters of organization and administration.

Florian Moritz

User Interface Design Engineer, Dipl. Computer Scientist (FH)

Florian Moritz is devoted to compelling user interfaces. He studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern and possesses substantiated skills concerning the development of websites and Rich Internet Applications (RIA). His thesis focussed on the convergence of web and desktop concepts to Rich Internet Applications in a user interface context. Furthermore, his strengths are located in the fields of conception and design of GUIs and touch screen HMIs, prototyping, icon design and styling and development of Silverlight/WPF applications.

Patrick Decker

Software Engineer, Dipl. Informatiker (FH)

Patrick Decker completed the degree of Applied Sciences with distinction at the University of Applied Sciences in Trier. Before he started working as a GUI developer, he was involved in the implementation of a Java-based renderer for XML, which implements the CSS 2.1 Standard of W3C. He was also engaged in the creation of a well-known German game. At Centigrade his main focus lies on the development of Java Swing GUI components and screens using the presentation model approach.

David Patrizi

User Interface Designer, Bachelor of Computer Science and Media

David holds a bachelor's degree in computer science in media at the University of Furtwangen. His thesis dealt with the graphical design of an interactive menu for mobile phones. As a user interface designer, David Patrizi is primarily responsible for the conception and design of high-quality icons. He gained experience in the field of design during his time as a web designer at Nintendo Europe and also a social community platform.

Jenny Gemmell

User Interface Designer, Bachelor of Computer Science and Media

Jenny engages herself in creating modern and asthetically appealing user interfaces and icons, advocating a constant sense for usability and user experience. While completing her studies of Applied Cognitive and Media Science her thesis dealt with designing peripheral awareness artefacts within a social network system for the elderly. Again focusing on both perfection of detail and the big picture Jenny broadened her skills by working on mobile platform applications. Her passion and strengths now lie in the field of digital and visual design.

Alexander Keller

User Interface Design Engineer, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Media

Alexander Keller completed his studies in Media Informatics at the Fachhochschule Kaiserslautern. In his bachelor thesis, he dealt with the conception and implementation of an Expression Blend Plugin to visualize input scenarios on touch devices. As a User Interface Design Engineer, his main assignment at Centigrade consists in realizing high-quality Screen Designs and interactive prototypes in the fields of Silverlight and WPF with Expression Blend. He thus works at the intersection of User Interface Design and User Interface Development.

Tobias Gölzer

Interaction Designer, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Media

Tobias Gölzer studied Media Informatics at the University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern and focused on Human Computer Interaction and Design. In his bachelor thesis, he designed and developed a Blend-plugin for real-time visualization of input on touch- and pen-based devices.
As interaction designer at Centigrade he deals with the design of user-friendly and efficient interaction forms. In addition, he works at the intersection of interaction design and visual design and is concerned with the styling of Silverlight- and WPF-applications.

Frederic Frieß

User Interface Designer and Developer, Bachelor of Computer Science

Frederic Frieß concluded his bachelor degree in computer science, at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden. During his thesis he worked on tangible user interfaces combined with multi-touch elements. One of his prior interests is 3D computer graphics. In this respect, he currently deepens his knowledge within the areas of real-time computer graphics, animation and modeling. At Centigrade his responsibilities cover both technical and design activities.

Kai Deller

Interaction Designer, Bachelor of Computer Science

As a cognitive and media scientist Kai Deller concentrates on conception and design of Interaction. Having worked in the field of Journalism and PR, he also attends in the creation of information architecture and information design. His core responsibilities at Centigrade thereby result in conceptioning and prototyping and in doing so he currently committed his passion especially to the paradigm of mobile platforms.

René Liesefeld

Cognitive Engineer, Dipl. Psychologist

René Liesefeld's work at Centigrade is concerned with information architecture and interaction design. In order to optimize the interaction between software and user a thorough analysis of the software's informational content and the user's behavior is indispensible. Based on such analyses the user interface can be designed as to allow the user to intuitively acquire the skills for a fast and error-free interaction with the software. René Liesefeld's goal is to adapt the user interface to the cognitive abilities of the user instead of forcing the user into the resource-consuming and error-prone process of adapting to the user interface. He will shortly have finished his PhD thesis in Cognitive Neuropsychology on the encoding, maintenance and processing of spatial information and its neuronal bases.

Sascha Blättgen

3D User Interface Designer

Sascha Blättgen concerns himself with visual communication, looking back on over 10 years of work experience. His focus lies on the combination of form and color as basis for a clear and emotionally expressive visual language. He covers illustration, motion design and user interface design in 2D as well as 3D. His experience includes working as designer in the games industry and contributing to a project of the Köln International School of Design and the Romano-Germanic Museum. Sascha Blättgen works at Games Factory Ruhr, Centigrade's Mülheim office, where he is in close contact with the gaming industry.

Anne Immich

Human Resources and Public Relations, Dipl. Psychologist

Anne Immich finished her studies at Saarland University in 2007. Since then she is in charge of the acquisition of qualified employees at Centigrade. Furthermore, she is responsible for recruiting test subjects for usability tests and supports the team at trade fairs.