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Centigrade Team

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

Thomas Immich

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

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

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.

 

 

Markus Weber

Dr. Markus Weber

Head of Usability Engineering, Dipl. PsychologistUPA Member

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

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

Florian Moritz

User Interface Designer and Developer, 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 screen design, prototyping, icon design and styling and development of Silverlight/WPF applications.

 

 

Patrick Decker

Patrick Decker

Software Engineer, Dipl. Computer Scientist (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

David Patrizi

User Interface Designer, Bachelor of Science

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.

 

 

Andreas Groß

Andreas Groß

User Interface Designer, Designer for Digital and Print Media

Andreas Groß is working as a mediator at the contact point of Centigrade’s Usability Engineering and User Interface Design divisions. He is mainly concerned with conceiving and developing Silverlight- and WPF-applications. His experience in the domain of user interface design includes working at a leading provider of eLearning solutions in Saarland where he created expressive animations to convey complex teaching content. As a freelancer, he successfully conducted on numerous web projects from layout to implementation.

 

 

Frederic Frieß

Frederic Frieß

User Interface Designer and Developer, Bachelor of 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.

 

 

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