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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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Centigrade will support this year’s “beyond tellerrand” conference as sponsoring partner. The event will take place in Düsseldorf from 20. to 22. November.

The conference is targeted at web enthusiasts and features three days of intensive workshops and talks on the topics of web design and development. What makes the event special is its community spirit and family atmosphere.
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In cooperation with Berner & Mattner Systemtechnik GmbH, Centigrade introduces www.touch-interface.de, a domain that revolves around the creation of touch screen interfaces in an industrial context. Site visitors can access information on touch displays, HMI-design and ergonomics as well as on the services that the two companies offer in these areas.
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This year’s GUI&Design conference will take place in Fürth/Nürnberg on the 8th and 9th of December. Centigrade supports the event as sponsoring partner.

At the conference, industry experts present software trends of the future based on Microsoft technologies such as WPF or Silverlight. Attendees will learn how to create modern user interfaces that are easy to learn, efficient, well designed and “sexy”.

Besides sponsoring the event, Centigrade will contribute a talk on “Truths and myths about resolution-independent user interfaces”.

Further information on the conference can be found at http://www.gui-design.ppedv.de.

This year, Centigrade celebrates the sixth anniversary of the company’s incorporation.

Thomas Immich, CEO: “Our sixth year has shown a very positive trend. The number of clients making use of our services has increased significantly, which has gone hand in hand with the growth of our team of qualified employees. One of the highlights of the sixth year clearly was the nomination for the German Design Award 2012, which we received for the design of the touch-based user interface of the ‘CMControl’ device, a product of our client OMICRON.”

Dr. Markus Weber, Head of Usability Engineering: “In addition to client projects, we also continued our activities for generating and communicating UX knowledge. To do so, we share our insights in our blog as well as in workshops and publications. Having our work, for example on the usability of animations, picked up by other UX practitioners who use it in their own works is an acknowledgment that we are very pleased with.”

Simon Albers, CEO: “As always, our thanks go to our clients and our team, who made the sixth year a successful one and we are looking forward to starting into a successful seventh year with them.”

The German Design Award is considered to be an outstanding accolade for design agencies contributing to the fields of product and communication design. The nomination and participation itself is an honor, as it is required to be the winner of either a regional competition, a selection process approved by the German Design Council or an international contest. Centigrade was nominated for the German Design Award due to the iF communication design award the company received in 2010 for the design of a Touchscreen HMI.
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This year, as in 2009 and 2010, Centigrade supported UXcamp Europe as a sponsor. In addition, several employees of the company participated in the BarCamp. As always, a multitude of top-class sessions on diverse aspects of user experience design was offered. A special surprise awaited the Centigrade employees in the session “The Future of Interfaces”, which dealt with issues that will become more and more important for the design of user interfaces.
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