We are pleased that the interview with Tom Cadera on this important topic has been published a second time.
If you missed the interview in Konstruktionspraxis, this is your chance to read it in MaschinenMarkt and find out about:

• how the success of machines, plants and equipment can be increased through UX & Design
• how designers can contribute to sustainable and cost-effective (sheet metal) design and development
• why usability and ergonomics go hand in hand

On the occasion of the company's 30th anniversary, Ute Drescher from Konstruktionspraxis conducted an interview with Tom Cadera. They talked about how important a well thought-out user concept is for industrial design and ultimately for the success of machines, systems and devices. "Usability is the logical continuation of ergonomics thinking from the analogue to the digital world", Tom Cadera emphasises and explains the importance of an "Overall User Experience", a positive overall experience of the user with all man-machine interfaces.

Cheers to 30 years! Dr. Sascha Genders, CEO of the Würzburg Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK), presented us with a certificate for our 30-year anniversary and raised a glass of champagne with us to celebrate this event.

What started at the dining table has grown into a company with 25 permanent and many freelance employees. Without the commitment of our great team, this success story would not have been possible. We would like to thank everyone from the bottom of our hearts who has supported us along the way, first and foremost our customers who have placed their trust in us - some for more than two decades!

Meet Stella, our Feelgood Manager

"CaderaDesign has been growing continuously over the past few years. My position was created so I can be there for all team members and ensure everyone enjoys working here," says Stella.

She mediates on a wide variety of issues, provides healthy snacks in the office, organises yoga classes and ensures ergonomic workstations. She also organises team supervisions, one-on-one coaching sessions and team events.

COVID-19 has changed Stella’s work and she now also focuses on supporting employees working from home and on promoting resilience. Her work also contributes to our corporate social responsibility, strengthening our sustainability efforts.

Tom Cadera and Florian Fuchs reflected on the successful cooperation with the Strama Group last week on site in Straubing. During a factory tour, the jointly developed HMI was seen in action. Tom Cadera also gave a keynote speech on the opportunities of UX design in mechanical engineering.
Strama-MPS develops machines, special systems and complete solutions for the production, assembly and testing of technical components and products. In a process based on partnership, a user-friendly HMI was developed for employees and customers.

We would like to thank our very valued customer Strama Group for the great cooperation!

A VDMA-websession on 29.11.2022 will take a close look at human-machine interaction with a focus on gamification. It will be worked out how the joy of operating a machine leads to intrinsic motivation and how all this has a beneficial effect on work processes. Florian Fuchs from CaderaDesign will be a speaker at the event and will give input on the topic of "Added value of UX in industry".

Pexcite is a vendor-agnostic software platform for the entire value chain of pharmaceutical production. Together with Uhlmann, we developed a comprehensive brand UI as well as a usability concept and a style guide for Pexcite. The UI concept supports the high security standards in the pharmaceutical industry. We are delighted that our project with Uhlmann has received a Red Dot Design Award and would like to express our sincere thanks for the great collaboration.

We are celebrating 30 years of CaderaDesign and would like to thank our partners and clients for the interest in our work, the exciting commissions and cooperations as well as the trusting collaboration - perhaps even over thirty years. We are proud to have served numerous medium-sized companies as well as large corporations over the years. We have also pursued our two mainstays, user interface design and industrial design, from the very beginning and have always developed them further.

An overall user experience of products that combines user interface and industrial design will continue to be an important focus for us in the future. We are also increasingly concerned with the issue of sustainability and the possibility of involving ourselves not only in technological progress, but also in society. We want to continue to design ergonomic workplaces that are a pleasure to work in and make the added value of design tangible, tangible and also measurable, above all for users in industry.

Tom Cadera of CaderaDesign and Christian Lang of Kiefel PACKAGING once again presented their successful collaboration at the VDMA Corporate Forum in Augsburg. Using the example of the award-winning HMI project with KIEFEL Packaging, they explored the question of how an agile collaboration between a mechanical engineering company and a design office can succeed. The participants also learned what a successful design process can look like and what advantages good usability has in the production environment.

Learn more about the project

We are still here for you!

We were very much looking forward to SPS Nuremberg this year. Unfortunately, the organisers had to cancel SPS 2021 at short notice. We welcome this step and the contribution to calm the pandemic situation as well as to protect our stand crew and visitors.

Nevertheless, we would like to use the SPS time (23 to 25 November 2021) to get in touch with you. Visit our Teams channel or make an appointment with us in advance! We would be happy to do so together with our partners Grossenbacher, Comtac, Sabo or with COPA-DATA. Contact us!

THE design of a central contact point for all information about Corona -. 
that was the starting point of our non-profit Corona Wegweiser project. With the "Stadt Land Smart" team of the city of Würzburg, we found a strong implementation partner and released a Corona Dashboard for the city of Würzburg in June. At the same time, we transferred our idea to an app concept and had exciting conversations with the creators of the Corona warning app. We would now like to publish the result of our optimization suggestions for the Corona warning app. We are pleased that we were able to contribute ideas and hope that as many of them as possible will be implemented. 

Together with the city of Würzburg and the developer Georg Fischer, we developed a dashboard that presents the most important information about the current Corona situation in Würzburg in a user-friendly way. It was particularly important to us to also present the current local rules. The concept and design of the dashboard is based on our Corona signpost concept and the extensive data compiled by the Open Data portal of the city of Würzburg.

We would like to thank Tilman Hampl and Eleonore Kohlhaupt from the "Stadt Land Smart" team of the city of Würzburg (WWS department) as well as Georg Fischer for their dedicated collaboration. We are very happy about the great result!

We are very happy about our success at the iF DESIGN Award 2021. Two of our projects won the prestigious award, once in the category "User Interface (UI)" and once in the category "Product".

"We are very pleased with the awards because they once again highlight the quality of our two mainstays, User Interface Design and Industrial Design. And they underline our claim to consider both disciplines in a holistic user experience approach," says Tom Cadera, founder and CEO of CaderaDesign. Read more about the two successful projects soon...

Tom Cadera answered this question in the podcast "Robotics in Industry". He spoke with trade journalist Robert Weber and robotics specialist Helmut Schmid about industrial design and user interface standards. He also gave an outlook on how systems might be operated in the next few years and what that means for HMI development.

How does agile collaboration between a mechanical engineering company and a design office work?
We will present our successful HMI project with KIEFEL Packaging at the VDID Unternehmensforum digital on 10.03.2021 at the Munich Creative Business Week. It was awarded a Red Dot Best of the Best Award. Learn what a successful design process can look like and the benefits of good usability in a production environment! Tom Cadera and Amelie Reich from CaderaDesign, together with Christian Lang from Kiefel PACKAGING, will talk about their collaboration.

Munich Creative Business Week
Upgrade your business. VDID Digital Business Forum. Part1
Wednesday, 10.03.2021, 17:30 - 19:00

What does AI mean for the future of HMI design?
Florian Fuchs from CaderaDesign reports on the topic of AI and Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) in the podcast AI in the Industry. "On the one hand, UX designers must communicate AI decisions about HMI to the user, while at the same time using AI methods such as voice input."

The production planning of the future now also for the workplace

The second part of our project for the Audi dpa is also successful. The digital planning assistant for Audi production lines "dpa" was the winner of the German Innovation Award in two categories: Excellence in Business to Business - Information Technologies and in the additional category Design Thinking. In this project we have now made the successful app available for the desktop PC. Production lines of different locations can now be overlooked and a 2D visualization of the line can be used interactively. Many thanks to our customer Audi and our partner SABO Mobile IT for the joint innovative and exciting project.

We are convinced that you can achieve customer proximity and a convincing product presentation even without participating in trade fairs. There are many ways to present your software and machines in an attractive way and bring them closer to your customers.

Dear clients,

Health always comes first. We would therefore like to play our part in containing the coronavirus outbreak. As specialists for digital solutions, we have therefore decided to switch to remote operations and provide support primarily from home offices. We have already completed a successful test run and will be available as usual.
We invite you to join us in holding meetings via conference tools to minimise face-to-face contact.

CaderaDesign has a number of resources that will allow us to do this, and we will be happy to share them with you. Rather than cancelling meetings, we want to use exciting new forms of communication to help us work together. We will contact you individually and determine the best approach for you.

We wish you health and success!

Best regards,
Tom Cadera and the team

Alerts for mobile devices

With the iF Award, the clever MindSphere app for smart watches and smart phones has received a second design prize. The notifier automatically delivers all important messages directly to your wrist. In this way it is possible to react to problems and disruptions quickly and effectively. We are over the moon about this award and would like to thank our colleagues at Siemens AG for their excellent cooperation.

Review of the SPS 2019 trade fair - focus topic: AI and Usability

Artificial intelligence is a technology that offers enormous potential for mechanical engineering. At the SPS 2019 we presented a concept that combines the issues of AI and future-oriented interaction concepts. Thanks to numerous discussions with guests from the mechanical and plant engineering industry, we have plenty of new ideas for this topic.