”Oh, it would be soo delicious to have some pancakes right now…”
“…with sirup”
“…with marmalade”
“…with cheese”
“…with sugar”
“…with chocolate”
… we had so many ideas…
But at this afternoon there weren´t any pancakes around. That´s why we decided to have some next day for lunch. Chris suggested to do it on our own and what should I say – here is the result cooked by Chris:
During importing the translation files I got this message and was totally confused…
My files are modified and this already in the future??
The solution of mystery:
Our translation agency is based in the United Arab Emirates and they are 2 hours ahead to our time zone, that means they provide files from future 
Recently I’ve read an article with the title „Real Developers Don’t Need Designers“. Here some guys express the opinion that for a desktop application there is no need for designers – real developers could do that job on their own. I think that even if some things are established like „OK“ and „Cancel“ are mostly arranged on the bottom… the user will recognize if a coder has tried to be a designer.
Interaction design it is a lot more than just about selecting colors and designing icons. We deal intensively with the target group and their tasks. Based on that we create the concept for the interaction with the application. The screen layout and how users can continue working in a flow is how your costumers will experience your application. >> more…
Not everybody understands English and anyway for native speakers it’s much easier. conjectPM is available in 18 languages, however it wasn’t that easy to administer them, which resulted in our users not being fully satisfied:
- In some places we had a mix of native language and English
- Some translations didn’t match the context anymore
- Wrong country-specific mail addresses and telephone numbers showed up
- Special characters were displayed incorrectly
- New functionalities weren’t translated until weeks later… >> more…
… there are interaction designers!
We are engaged with the design of interfaces between human and computer. Our goal is to design a interface with that users could achieve their tasks in their environment in the best possible way.
We are developing new/improved designs for the conjectPM interface. Therefor we create concepts based on the needs from the user tasks, e.g. “I want to deliver quickly my drawings to the constructor”. We want to know how users are working, that’s because we run consistently interviews with our users – also for specific questions.
In close collaboration with developers the concept is implemented and tested. After the new functionality is released, we optimize it based on user feedbacks and statistic of use.
“If you can’t play table footie, there is no prospect within conject?” I don’t think that conjectler are soo stern, but table footie is definitely the favourite activity in our breaks…
Last week the conject table footie tournament 2008 took place: 20 participants, 17 games in paired teams in 5 hours. I had to be present! To have equal opportunities, teams are drawn by lot. The luck was on my side, because my game partners weren’t that bad
… and – what should I say? – Timo and me were the winners! Besides glory and fame we’ve won a spanking cup!
Because shooting goals is a very sweaty business, there was lots of chilled beer and pizza, of course 
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