On March 1st, 2011, the annual Games User Research Summit will take place in San Francisco for the second time. The event brings together user-research professionals who work in the games industry, and share experience, knowledge and techniques. Centigrade is proud to support the summit as Platinum sponsor.

Centigrade thanks all its clients and partners for their trust and wishes them a successful start to 2011.

The first technical seminar of the Game Development Initiative Ruhr, which covered the development tool Microsoft Expression Blend®, was a full success. Thomas Immich, CEO Centigrade GmbH, delivered a competent and entertaining introduction to about 30 developers, designers and students, who could work through and build upon most of the hands-on examples at their own laptops.

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In 2010, World Usability Day takes place for the sixth time and focuses on the theme of “communication”. This is also the topic that a special issue of User Experience Magazine, the official magazine of UPA (Usability Professionals’ Association) is focusing on. Centigrade contributes to the magazine with an article by Dr. Markus Weber, Head of Usability Engineering.

This year, Centigrade celebrates the fifth anniversary of its incorporation.

Thomas Immich, Managing Director: “In the five years since Centigrade has been incorporated, we have successfully conducted projects in the areas of usability engineering, user interface design and user interface development for our clients. The fact that many of our clients commission us repeatedly as well as their enthusiastic feedback shows that Centigrade has become an established and well-known player in the market.”

Centigrade has announced that the company will take part in this year’s conference Mensch & Computer in Duisburg. Centigrade will contribute workshops to two of the four conference tracks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.