UXcamp 2013 – Sucess for Centigrade

At the 22nd and 23rd of June, the UXcamp Europe 2013 took place in Berlin. Centigrade accompanies the event from the very beginning, and contributed to the success of the event through several lectures and the t-shirt sponsorship.

This year about 650 participants attended the camp, which focuses on user experience. All visitors were encouraged to actively participate in the barcamp and Centigrade made also use of this option:

Martin Hesseler, Interaction Designer at Centigrade, reported on challenges in the communication with several parties in customer projects. Using examples and anecdotes, he pointed to problems of daily project routine and associated strategies. He initiated a lively discussion in which the participants of the session exchanged their experiences and approaches.

The lecture from Centigrade User Interface Design Engineer Alexander Keller focused on the challenges in the development of resolution-independent user interfaces. Using practical examples from the web and the desktop world, he discussed problem cases and successful approaches to resolution-independent interfaces. It became clear that it is worthwhile to put the context of use at the center, rather than concentrating too much on the technical specifications.

The enrichment of non-gaming processes through playful elements for the purpose of motivation or customer loyalty is often described with the term gamification. Jörg Niesenhaus, branch manager of Centigrade Mülheim, presented in the course of his talk examples of the integration of playful elements to motivate staff and increase efficiency in the industrial production. Thereby, he focused on the specific requirements of industrial production, which differ significantly from the majority of popular applications of gamification.

Jörg Niesenhaus was taken with the UXcamp 2013: “Centigrade is proud to accompany the UXcamp from the beginning and it has been great to watch the barcamp growing from year to year. 2013 was the highlight of this development. The event was well organized, saw lots of high-quality lectures and there were lots of opportunities to exchange experiences with interesting people. Certainly we are at the UXcamp next year again.”

About Centigrade GmbH:

Centigrade is committed to excellence in usability engineering, user interface design and user interface development. The company supports its clients in creating software products of high usability, visual attractiveness and technical elegance.

With its creative and agile team of usability engineers, designers and software architects, Centigrade is able to offer customized user experience services, ranging from requirements gathering over usability evaluations to conception and creation of exclusive screen and icon designs. In addition, Centigrade provides specialized GUI components and Look and Feels for applications that are based on Java™ Swing, WPF or Silverlight.

Centigrade’s client base includes medium-sized businesses as well as international organizations from diverse business areas. Projects cover, amongst others, business-oriented user interfaces in the ERP- and CRM-sectors as well as touch-based interfaces in the industrial and medical contexts.

Centigrade regularly publishes weblogs on user experience topics and is a member and sponsor of the German association of usability professionals, "germanUPA". The company has been presented with several awards for its work such as the prestigious iF communication design award.

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