Happy Holidays! A great year is behind us and what better way to end it than with a good meal in good company? So we got together at the cosy Hofhaus in the heart of Saarbrücken and reviewed the year together. You can find more impressions of our celebration, as well as many exciting articles and insights into our daily life, on our social media channels. We wish all of you who are celebrating these days happy holidays, but in any case a contemplative time and a happy new year 2024!

Your Centigrade team

We are pleased to present our new magazine “Makrokosmos”. It reflects our key findings from the past year in the areas of generative artificial intelligence and sustainable user experience. With fascinating insights into the integration of AI into workflows, the challenges of AI and design in the professional environment, and much more, this publication is a testament to our commitment to innovation.

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Last week we had the pleasure of hosting the VDMA Day at our office in Saarbrücken. It was an outstanding event, characterised by a lively dialogue about the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in optimising user experience (UX) and usability in the machinery and plant construction industry. We were proud to welcome numerous guests from the industry, including new faces as well as long-time companions.

The VDMA represents 3,600 German and European engineering companies, an industry known for its innovative solutions, export strength and SME values. Hosting the VDMA Day on our premises was the biggest event of the year for us and an absolute highlight.

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We are proud to announce that our project in collaboration with Tecan Group has won the iUX Award! This was the first time this award was given, and it recognized not just the user interface but the substantive essence and application possibilities of the project.

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Centigrade is now 18 years old – reason enough for us to look back on a year of innovation and success. We celebrated this special milestone with a surprise party for our founder Thomas Immich. He was visibly surprised to see so many team members in attendance. The highlight of the celebration was a special cake, pizza – of course – and even a live broadcast for those colleagues who could only be there remotely!

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Centigrade is proud to announce that one of our most ambitious projects in recent months has reached an important milestone: the development of safety systems for autonomous and conventional vehicles together with our client Humanetics.

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We’re delighted to be able to look back on a particularly successful Next Job Fair 2023 at Saarland University this year. We were able to show our best side. Thanks to our partner Nuiland, we had an impressive stand that attracted attention with its creative design and the highlights on offer.

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Finally, the time is here! We recently launched the new podcast “Prompts for UX” with our unique AI P.F.U.X. From now on, episodes of this exciting podcast series will be published regularly on our Spotify and YouTube channels. read more…

The project “Cross-border Health Cooperation in the Eurodistrict SaarMoselle”, in short “GeKo”, contributed to the concrete structuring and further development of the cooperation between the actors in the health sector on both sides of the border in the period 2020-2022.
Centigrade, as one of the leading UX agencies actively involved in projects in the medical and healthcare sector, was invited with Thomas Immich to give a statement in the Saarbrücken business magazine.
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From time to time, there are projects that inspire and that you are proud to be a part of. The BIGEKO research project is one such project. Together with partners like the DFKI, we are developing a new system for translating sign language with the help of artificial intelligence. It aims to improve communication between deaf and hearing people and is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Great project partners and a human-centered design with great social impact? Count us in!

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The “DAK im Dialog” format is a series of interviews by DAK health insurance, one of Germany’s largest health insurers with 5.5 million insured. As part of the format, experts are regularly invited to be interviewed and discuss exciting health topics together. Centigrade was also invited on the topic of “Digital Health Management”.

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On 06.01.2023, an article by Thomas Immich, Managing Director of Centigrade, on the topic of gamification and cybersecurity was published in the magazine it-daily.net. The article describes how the use of gamification and serious games can increase both interest and awareness for the topic of cybersecurity. The focus is on the use of the right game elements to motivate users to deal with the topic and to implement the necessary security measures. read more…