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OMICRON, a long-standing customer of Centigrade has released RelayLabTest, an innovative desktop-based software to test protection devices. RelayLabTest enables users to simulate entire power networks in order to achieve most realistic operating conditions. The software already complies with the requirements of the future standard IEC 60255-121 for distance protection devices. Centigrade supported OMICRON during the entire user interface design and engineering process of the WPF-based user interface from start to end.
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Centigrade will be opening its third office in Frankfurt am Main in September.

Together with its head office in Saarbrücken and the office in Mülheim an der Ruhr Centigrade will hold presences in southwestern, northwestern and central Germany.

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Since end of May 2012, Centigrade resides in its new office premises in Science Park 2, which are two times the size of the old office.

Thomas Immich, CEO Centigrade: “Moving into new premises was the logical consequence of Centigrade’s steady growth. The new office allows us to keep increasing the strength of our team in order to respond to the growing demand regarding our services. As a side effect, moving offices in the way we did is also ‘user friendly’ for our clients from the communication perspective, since the familiar contact data has not changed –just the floor levels did.”

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On March 1st 2012 the software appointed – Der Termin has won the first Mobile Award Austria (MAwA12). The Vienna-based company DI Klaus Kurz won the first prize in the category „Health, Sports & Lifestyle“ for the mobile component of its product.

appointed – Der Termin is a scheduling software for the medical domain that has been developed in cooperation with physicians. An intelligent calendar is provided to enable the coordination of appointments and teams of physicians, while patients can manage their appointments online and be reminded via SMS.

Since 2010, Centigrade supports appointed with the business look & feel BizLaF as well as with the design of exclusive product icons. In addition, icons from Centigrade’s stock icon set FlareSeries support the modern and elegant appearance of the application.
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In 2012, as in previous years, Centigrade sponsors “German UPA”, the German association of usability and user experience professionals. In doing so, Centigrade supports the goals of the association, such as promoting public awareness for topics like user-friendliness of interactive systems.
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On May 26th and 27th, this year’s installment of UXcamp Europe will take place in Berlin. The BarCamp deals with diverse UX issues, ranging from information architecture over interaction design, up to visual design and user interface development. Like in all previous years and since the foundation of UXcamp in Berlin in 2009, Centigrade supports the event as sponsor.
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At this year’s “Personal” trade fair (Stuttgart, 24./25. April and Hamburg, 9./10. May), the new user interface of the payroll management solution “Exact Lohn” is presented to an expert audience for the first time. The new user interface was previously presented to participants of the Exact Payroll Days where it has been greeted with much enthusiasm. Exact Software Deutschland and Centigrade created the user interface on the basis of a user-centered design approach.
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In the current issue of the Interactive Design Magazine WEAVE, Stefan Wölwer, Professor at HAWK in Hildesheim, shares his insights about the industries growing demand for innovative, touch and gesture controlled User Interface Design. As Centigrade had already picked up the trend some time ago by working on sophisticated industrial applications, Thomas Immich, CEO at Centigrade, was interviewed for the article’s editorial work. read more…

Centigrade contributes a talk to this year’s GUI&Design conference, which takes place in Fürth/Nürnberg on the 8th and 9th of December.

The conference focuses on the creation of user interfaces with Microsoft technologies such as WPF or Silverlight. Industry experts show how stylish and easy to use applications can be created that provide great user experiences.
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On November 10th World Usability Day (WUD) takes place for the seventh time. Public events around the globe deal with current trends and developments in the areas of usability and user experience design. The topic of this year’s WUD is: “Education: Designing for Social Change”. Centigrade contributes to the event in the “Ruhr Metropolis” as sponsor as well as with a talk.
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