
Centigrade announced the release of the new version of the stock icon store Icon Book.
The new version of Icon Book now allows in-app icon shopping and convenient management of purchased icons. Purchased icons will be automatically unlocked in the application, so that they can be directly accessed as PNG or Windows® compatible ICO files. In addition, Icon Book is now also available for the Mac.
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Centigrade supported this year’s UXcamp Europe as a sponsor and also joined the very well attended event as a session contributor. UXcamp Europe has been taking place in Berlin on the 29th and 30th of May and focused on user experience topics such as information architecture, visual design, prototype engineering and alike. As the postfix „camp“ suggests, the event was organized and conducted as a BarCamp, i.e. an open and participatory unconference whose session planning and content is completely determined by the participants.
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Centigrade today announced that the company is amongst this year’s proud winners of the coveted iF communication design award. A top-class jury chose the company’s entry out of 1678 entries from 26 countries.
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Centigrade is proud to announce that the company received great acknowledgement from KEG, the Competence Center for Electronic Business, Saarland. Among 120 submissions the contest’s jury awarded the website www.centigrade.de with second place.
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This year’s conference of the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) will take place in Munich from May 24th to May 28th. The theme of the conference is “Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience Design for the World”. Centigrade contributes two “Idea Markets” to this top-class event.
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Since April 1st 2010, Centigrade is supporting the German association of usability professionals, German UPA, as sponsor.
German UPA is an association of and network for usability experts, in which individuals from diverse disciplines join forces with the common goal of creating user-friendly interactive systems.
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After a successful premiere in 2009, UXcamp will take place in Berlin in 2010 again. Taking place right after the international conference “UPA 2010” in Munich, UXcamp is conceived as international event, too. Centigrade is proud to support “UXcamp Europe 2010” as a sponsor.
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For the fourth time in a row, Centigrade took part in CeBIT, the world’s largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments. The company presented its portfolio of services in the areas of usability engineering, user interface design, user interface development and icon design.
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Centigrade recently went live with two new product sites to present Cezanne, the Look and Feel engine for the Java™ platform as well as the interactive stock icon store Icon Book.
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Centigrade announced today that it releases a free medical stock icon series called MedicalSeries. Thomas Immich, Managing Director at Centigrade: “We conducted quite a lot of icon projects in the healthcare sector just recently, for which reason we already had a couple of nice metaphors on the pile. We distilled some of the most frequently requested ones and wrapped them into a fresh new style. Being modern and concise rather than fancy and playful, they are in line with what we experienced works well in the medical domain.”
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Centigrade is pleased to announce that significant outcomes of the company’s collaboration with OMICRON electronics will be presented at the Middle East Electricity in Dubai, a trade show that was rated by visitors and exhibitors as being the world-leading energy event of its kind.
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Once again Centigrade attends the leading trade fair for the ICT industry, CeBIT 2010. The trade fair will take place March 2-6 in Hannover, Germany. It will be Centigrade’s fourth CeBIT attendance in a row. Just as last year, Centigrade will be available to present its service and product portfolio in hall 5, booth F04.
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After a very successful year 2008 and despite of a temporary drop of enquiries in the first quarter of 2009, Centigrade follows up on past successes. Besides conducting several new and challenging client projects, Centigrade concentrated capacities on internal projects of excellent prospects – such as the creation of a high-quality stock icon library for Windows Vista and Windows 7.
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This year, World Usability Day takes place for the fifth time with local events being held all over the world. Centigrade will contribute to the event in Mannheim with a talk by its Head of Usability Engineering, Dr. Markus Weber.
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MedConf, a conference focusing on software- and system-design for medical devices, took place in Munich from Oct 13th to Oct 15th. Centigrade contributed to the conference program with a full-day workshop that was conducted in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE).
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This year’s “Usability Professionals” – the largest conference for usability professionals in the German-speaking world – was held in Berlin. During the closing event on September 9, the Best Session Award was presented to the speakers that received the most favorable audience ratings for their session in feedback questionnaires. This year, Dr. Markus Weber and Thomas Immich of Centigrade were amongst the awardees.
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Just recently, Centigrade went live with an updated version of its website’s start page. The new start page features a gadget that leverages the new Silverlight 3.0 plugin, a Microsoft technology designed to provide internet users with richer user experiences.
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Centigrade GmbH formed a team of runners to attend the 5th Saarland Company Run that took place in Dillingen, Germany July 9th, 2009. The record-breaking event once more convinced with spectacular participation: with 14717 runners from 1025 companies, the event is one of the largest collective sporting events in Germany.
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Centigrade announces that the company is enlisted in the Microsoft Agency Partner Program and has been added as such to the official German Microsoft Expression website. As partner, Centigrade provides WPF and Silverlight design and development services to its customers.
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Centigrade joined UXCamp 2009 in Berlin from May 23 to May 24 for its successful premiere. The event was focused on topics in the field of user experience such as, for example, interaction design, visual design or prototyping. The postfix „camp“ alludes to the fact that the event is organized and conducted as a BarCamp, i.e. an open and participatory unconference whose session planning and content is completely determined by the participants.
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