CaderaDesign GmbH

Germany

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CaderaDesign GmbH is an established German industrial design and usability engineering consultancy based in the Bürgerbräu creative quarter of Würzburg. Operating for more than 30 years since its establishment in 1992, the studio is directed by Tom Cadera and Steven Schmidt, providing integrated hardware and software interface design for industrial automation, mechanical engineering, and medical technology.

The company bridges physical product design and digital control surfaces, focusing on “Industrial Grade UX” compliant with ergonomics standards such as DIN EN ISO 9241. Its solutions range from physical console housings and operator control panels to embedded software interfaces implemented across platforms like Siemens TIA Portal, WinCC Unified, COPA-DATA zenon, and web-based HMI frameworks like WebIQ.

CaderaDesign serves both mid-sized machine builders and multinational industrial corporations, including Siemens, Bosch Rexroth, Uhlmann, Kiefel, Coperion, BBS Automation, and Audi, having received multiple Red Dot, iF Design, and German Design Awards.

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CaderaDesign provides comprehensive design and engineering services spanning physical hardware control enclosures, embedded software screens, and front-end implementation:

HMI & User Interface Design: Conception and visual design of touch interfaces, machine terminal screens, sidebars, status visualization, alarm management views, and modular UI component libraries.
Industrial Design (ID): Physical styling, ergonomics, housing conception, enclosure form factor development, and hardware control element arrangement for machinery, mobile terminals, and laboratory apparatus.
Usability Engineering: User research, contextual inquiry on shop floors, persona definition, click dummies, workflow simplification, and usability testing according to DIN EN ISO 9241.
Frontend Development for Industry: Implementation of HMI screens on industrial automation stacks including Siemens WinCC Advanced/Professional, Siemens WinCC Unified (TIA Portal), COPA-DATA zenon, and HTML5/CSS/JavaScript web frontends via WebIQ.
Design Systems & Guidelines: Development of cross-machine UI pattern libraries, atomic design frameworks, corporate HMI guidelines, and technical documentation.
Human-Centered AI & Explainable AI (XAI): UX design for machine learning-driven industrial systems, making automated algorithms and diagnostic decisions transparent to human machine operators.

CaderaDesign GmbH

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