This year, we would like to use the holiday season to share gratitude, inspiration, and a little playful magic. Instead of traditional Christmas cards, we at Centigrade have come up with something special again: an interactive AI experience greeting that takes you on a little journey.

Our managing director  Thomas has published a three-part series of articles in Heise that addresses the question: How will the use of AI agents change the way software and digital products are developed in the future—and what does that mean for companies, product managers, and developers?

In this era of powerful AI image generation and freely available icon libraries, the question quickly arises: “Why bother designing icons ‘by hand’ at all?” For many, resorting to existing solutions may seem like the easiest and fastest way. But in reality, it has been proven time and again that “out-of-the-box” solutions are not enough—especially […]

Our managing director Thomas Immich was invited to give a presentation and workshop on the measurability of design quality at the Bosch Designers Network Meeting on October 23, 2025. The focus was on how AI-based quality assurance can revolutionize design processes. Using concepts such as the “Design Compiler,” Thomas showed how AI agents will be […]

The hype surrounding AI shows no signs of stopping for the time being: according to a study by Bitkom Research, the proportion of German citizens who use tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or Gemini at least occasionally has risen from 40% in 2024 to 67% in 2025[1]. More and more companies are integrating conversational […]

Who wouldn’t want a “Bob the Builder” for their own four walls, who immediately springs into action when something crumbles or molds appears? Such doers are hard to come by, and even the band “Das Lumpenpack” sings about their disappointment at having only educators instead of craftsmen in their circle of friends. That’s how it […]

As part of my student job at Centigrade, I was able to work on an exciting project over the past few months: the Continuous Product Toolkit (CPT). This toolkit combines helpful UX tools – such as a module that checks whether an uploaded screen is accessible for people with color blindness.

How can old systems be combined with modern intelligence? Thomas Immich explores this exciting question in his presentation at insideRE, on 25. September. He shows how AI is changing requirements management – from analyzing existing systems and evaluating individual features to helping create better user stories.

Working with personas has long been established in product development – and at the same time is often too flat: nicely designed profiles that are presented once and then rarely used again. Thomas Immich, Managing Director of Centigrade and founder of the AI-supported tool LeanScope AI , is fundamentally rethinking this approach. For him, personas […]

1. Intro In this blog article, we address the question of whether open source models provided locally within companies are mature enough to compete with the “big” commercial models such as Claude or Chat-GPT. The hype surrounding AI – regardless of the industry – could hardly be greater. Everywhere, automation and efficiency gains are promised, […]

In a world dominated by data, one skill is becoming increasingly important: the art of presenting complex information in a visually clear, understandable and convincing way. Especially as a designer, you have the opportunity to create not only aesthetically pleasing, but above all meaningful visualizations that make decisions easier and tell stories. But good data […]

Artificial intelligence is no longer a topic for the future – it is already shaping our everyday lives today. This makes it all the more important to introduce young people to the concepts and functions of modern AI. This is precisely where the KIsu – Artificial Intelligence in School Education project comes in, which is […]

Am 1. April 2024 nimmt unser Geschäftsführer Thomas Immich an einem spannenden Webinar teil, organisiert von SUX – The Sustainable UX Network. Unter dem Titel „Aprils Fool or Magic Wand: Demystifying AI ‘Facts’“ werden verschiedene Speaker über Mythen und Wahrheiten rund um Künstliche Intelligenz sprechen – mit einem Augenzwinkern, aber auch mit der nötigen Ernsthaftigkeit. […]

The arrival of generative AI and the widespread use of ML algorithms is already significantly changing our human behaviour and organisational processes at all levels of society – and at breakneck speed.

We believe there is enormous potential in artificial intelligence. That is why we are currently investing heavily in supporting our employees in their day-to-day work to unlock this potential and minimize the risks associated with it.

We had the opportunity to work with Prof. Gerrit Baptist and Klea Schlimm from Bauhaus University Weimar on a student project. The project involved young product designers developing better product ideas with the help of AI personas.

Merry Christmas! As the year draws to a close, we thought it was time to look ahead to 2025. The new year brings with it new regulations to better address challenges such as AI, accessibility and sustainability. These challenges exist independently of EU legislation and need to be considered from the perspective of those affected.

Ever since openAI made it possible to create personalised AI chatbots with customGPTs, we have been working hard on how to implement such a bot in our company. Today, we present the fruits of these efforts: Our new AI colleagues for special tasks!

This blog post provides a summary of our i-com article published in August 2024 (Volume 23 Issue 2). The article analyses human-computer interaction (HCI) in science fiction films and shows how collaboration between humans and machines has developed over the last 100 years. It always makes reference to current real technologies. There are also interesting […]

My name is Maria Shabanova and I did my internship at Centigrade in July 2024 in the UX Design department. I was given the task of creating an AI assistant with OpenAI (GPT-4). Centigrade works a lot with LeanScope AI and has created the possibility to create AI assistants, many of which are already in […]

What has happened so far: Our Voice & Tone Guide Some time ago, I reported in a blog article on how we developed our own Voice & Tone as part of our Centigrade Rebranding Journey and recorded it in a Voice & Tone Guide. Let me briefly recap why a brand actually needs its own […]

For product managers and CX/UX designers, understanding their target group is essential in order to develop products and services that really resonate. Personas, fictional characters that represent real users, are indispensable tools here. They make it possible to give the rather abstract target group a face, recognise their likes and dislikes and tailor everything from […]

In today’s world, sustainability is more present than ever, while at the same time we are using more and more technology in our everyday lives. In the best case scenario, we combine these things. Unfortunately, most UX designers lack the theoretical knowledge to do this, which is where our media project comes in. We have […]

A picture is worth a thousand words. But what words are needed to describe a picture? We used to push pixels and spend hours on tutorials to learn many complex design tools. At some point during our studies, we decided on a specific topic and specialized in order to find a job on the market […]

„What do successful User Experience professionals have in common? Empathy. “ – Kathryn Whitenton, Nielsen Norman Group [1] Empathy is one of the most common buzzwords in the UX industry, it is assumed to be an important skill and – according to an employee of the Nielsen Norman Group – apparently even distinguishes good from […]

This blog already offers a diverse collection around the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) from the various disciplines that work all under one roof at Centigrade. Of course, visual and ux design cannot be missing from this. In this blog post, I look at the current state and shed light on whether and how we […]

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.

Digital products become more complex with each year and interoperate in systemic contexts. Companies are therefore increasingly thinking in terms of platforms and digital ecosystems instead of monolithic large-scale products. To master complexity, the establishment of an overarching design system is therefore one of the most important strategic factors in the user-centric era.

How can ChatGPT support UX Research? I conducted a fictional UX Research project with ChatGPT to find out more about what ChatGPT’s current strengths (and weaknesses) are in performing UX Research tasks.