Journal

• Cloud
• Industry 4.0
• IOT

WatchOut: Smartwatch meets Industry 4.0

Do I really need a smartwatch? Part 2 – Apple Watch

Supporting practice-based learning: Centigrade sponsors Wissenswerkstatt Saarbrücken

• Design Engineering
• Visual Studio

Many small improvements – Visual Studio 2015

• Gamification
• Industrial Gamification
• Industry 4.0

Machine motivates User: Gamification in the Industry 4.0

• 3D Interaction
• Force Feedback
• Immersion

DeepGrip – Hands on Virtual Reality

Coffee for your ears: How Death Metal can make you more productive

• Dotnet Cologne
• Universal Apps
• Universal Windows Platform

Contextual User Interface Design Engineering with the Universal Windows Platform

How Morticians and Industrial Engineers play – A Gamification User Type Study

• Design Principles
• Design Process
• Interaction Design

What consistency means for a cat and what it means for your interface

• Brainstorming
• Conceptual Design
• Sketches

Hands off of mouse and keyboard – the advantages of pen and paper scribbles in the digital age

• Cooperation
• Development
• Interaction Design

You are a Developer? So, you are a UX Designer.

• Design Principles
• Perception
• Typography

The truth is black on white.

• C++
• Git
• Leipzig

Developer Open Space 2014 in Leipzig

• Natural User Interfaces
• Oculus Rift
• Prototyping

Oculus Rift DK2

• Energy Transition
• Gamification
• Player Types

Saving the world by writing a gamification thesis at Centigrade

• Human Centered Design
• Usability
• User Experience

Of Science and Bavarian Beer Receptions – Visiting the “Mensch und Computer 2014” in Munich

• Apple Watch
• Pebble
• Review

Uncommunicative – do I really need a smartwatch? (Pebble review)

• User Interface Design

Game development rocks! Software development sucks?

• Button
• Design Thinking
• Information Visualization

Not Lost in Translation – About Icons and Interpreters

• Gamification
• User Experience

Gamification: Critical reflection in German media

• Eyetracking
• Game Usability
• Gamification

Evaluation of the game experience of „Need for Speed: Rivals”

• Interaction Design
• Usability
• Usability Evaluation

It’s time to redesign email

• Gamification
• Industry 4.0
• Interaction Design

Industry 4.0: Gamification in the area of industrial production

• Interaction Design
• Lab
• Natural User Interfaces

Leap Motion – Just a kind gesture?

• Games
• User Experience
• User Interface Design

10 reasons why the “serious” software industry can learn from computer games in terms of user experience – Part 2

• Design Process
• Game Design
• Games

Gamification as a design process

• Ribbons

„We need Ribbons“ – Pros and Cons

• Icons
• Microsoft
• Typography

Desktop Modern UI

• Migration
• Windows
• Windows Rt

From windows to tiles: Contrasting WinRT´s UI framework with WPF – Another case study

• Selection

Selections in WPF

• Windows Store App Reflection
• WinRT
• WinRT Reflection

From windows to tiles: Leveraging reflection to inspect and contrast WPF with WinRT XAML

• Design Principles
• Emotion
• Usability

“Form Follows Function” – An unclear design principle

• Light Sensor
• Sensors
• Surface

From windows to tiles: WinRT sensors – Overview and C# sample

• Lab
• Surface
• Windows

From windows to tiles: A tutorial on live tiles & badges

• Lab
• Surface
• Windows

From windows to tiles: Towards the development of Windows Store applications

• Lab
• Migration
• Mvvm

From windows to tiles: Porting a Windows Phone 7 app to Windows Runtime – A small case study

• Interaction Design
• Micro-Interactions
• Psychology

Touching the desktop – Modern micro-interaction and burdens of the past

• User Interface Design
• User Interface Development
• Windows Forms

Introducing WPF – Experiences of a former Windows Forms developer

• Design Process
• Usability
• User Experience

Everyday User Interface Annoyances

• Architecture
• Design Principles
• Design Process

User Interface Architectures – Four Things Architecture and Interface Design Have in Common

• Design Principles
• Design Process
• Communication

Pictograms – The New Sliced Bread in Icon Design

• Collaboration
• User Interface Development

WPF Performance – How It Matters on the User Interface

• Attention
• Design Principles
• Psychology

The Number Seven Is Not Magical, but Cognitive Capacity Limitations Are Real and Relevant (Part 2)

• Design Principles
• Memory
• Psychology

The Number Seven Is Not Magical, but Cognitive Capacity Limitations Are Real and Relevant (Part 1)

• User Interface Design Engineering
• User Interface Development
• Visual Design

User Interface Design Engineering – A New Discipline That’s Here to Stay

• Typography
• Usability
• User Interface Design

How to Choose the Right Font – An Introduction

• Interaction Design
• Natural User Interfaces
• Prototyping

Kinect: Revolution for User Interfaces? – Part 2

• Natural User Interfaces
• Prototyping
• User Interface Design

Kinect: Revolution for User Interfaces? – Part 1

• Animations
• Usability
• User Experience

The Science of Animation

• Games
• User Experience
• User Interface Design

10 reasons why the “serious” software industry can learn from computer games in terms of user experience – Part 1

• User Interface Guidelines
• Windows Phone

User Interface Guidelines for Mobile Devices: Blessing or Curse?

Mouse vs. Touch – or Peacefully Together?

• Natural User Interfaces
• Touch
• Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 Pie Menu Design Study

• Touch
• Usability
• User Interface Design

The Comeback Of The Pie Menu

• Prototyping
• User Interface Design

Resurrecting UI Prototypes (Without Creating Zombies) – Part 2: Prototyping with Expression Blend

• Natural User Interfaces
• Prototyping

Resurrecting User Interface Prototypes (Without Creating Zombies) – Part 1: Prototyping Natural User Interfaces

• Animations
• Study
• Usability

Benefits and Drawbacks of Animations Concerning User Experience

• Freebie

Free Medical Stock Icons: The Centigrade MedicalSeries

• Accessibility
• Usability
• Visual Design

Regarding Color Vision Deficiency in the Icon Design Process