ERGOSIGN Blog

WUD Munich
Communikation 2.0 as a Design Tool in the UCD Process

WUD Hamburg
UX Management: Efficient Implementation of UCD Methods in Corporations

• At the WUDcamp in Hamburg, co-hosted by ERGOSIGN as a local sponsor, Michael Richter will host a session on the topic "UX Management - Efficient Implementation of UCD methods in corporations".
• In Mannheim Dieter Wallach will speak about "Multi-Touch: On Possibilities and their Limits".
• Munich's event is also sponsored locally by ERGOSIGN, where Holger Diehl will talk about "Communication as a Designtool".

(The following news is only available in German.)

ERGOSIGN ist zum 1.Oktober 2010 als Mitglied im Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V. (Fachverband Software) aufgenommen worden.

Hiermit intensiviert die ERGOSIGN ihr Engagement im Bereich der Gestaltung von HMI im Industrie-Sektor. Im Rahmen der Mitgliedschaft möchten wir einen Betrag dazu leisten, daß auch in dieser für Deutschland so wichtigen Branche das Thema Usability gefördert und die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit erhöht wird.

Wir freuen uns auf einen regen Austausch!

(The following news is only available in German.)

In einem Beitrag auf Computerwoche.de geben Dr. Marcus Plach (Geschäftsführer der ERGOSIGN GmbH) und Jens Wagener, (Vorstandsvorsitzender der Itemis AG) konkrete Tips zu den Do's and Don'ts der App-Entwicklung.

Dabei wird ganz spezifisch auf die Entwicklung von Business-Apps für Smartphones und Tablets eingegangen ... ein Feld, welches im Vergleich zum massiven Erfolg der  Consumer-Apps noch klar in den Startlöchern steht.

Lesen Sie mehr ...

Servus beinand! Wuilsd a Bier und a Herzerl, kriegst au a Kapperl dazua! O'zapft is!

Fresh from the press the newest member of the Cube-family of zeixs is now available. In "signs, symbols & pictos" over 700 pages of stunning icon design are presented, including examples from ERGOSIGN. More info at the publisher's website.

We just kicked off the beta test of our prototyping tool ANTETYPE, which we announced at UPA2010 and first demonstrated at UXcampEurope 2010. 

We have many people signed up, who are already busy testing, but you can still join. So please register for the ANTETYPE-newsletter, we will then send you the download link and login details.

We are now eager to get as much feedback as possible to make ANTETYPE the best design and prototyping app around.

Go green ...

Work on our recently announced prototyping application ANTETYPE is progressing well and we are already using internal beta versions in ERGOSIGN projects. To sweeten the wait until ANTETYPE is released we release the ANTETYPE Color Picker - an Apple Color Picker Plugin for free.

When working with colors in a creative way, the HSB color system is often a much better choice than RGB, since it is modeled after human perception of color rather than technical representation. However, in implementation, RGB or Hex values are usually needed - switching between different color pickers works but still is quite a hassle. So we created a color picker that shows and allows editing of those color systems and representations within one view. Combined with a well-proven visual way of picking a color bast on HSB our color picker brings much-needed ease-of-use to the Apple system color picker.

For further information as well as the download and installation instructions visit the ANTETYPE Blog.

A new case study for SAGE Office Line has beed added to our references.

With the support of ERGOSIGN a new entry to this popular ERP-solution labelled "Control Center" was introduced with a high customizability and a push paradigm enabling users to work more effectively.