Design Types
The Timeline.
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Matthias and Christian independently get interested in design principles and improving communication among developers.
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Matthias becomes a manager and Christian writes his master's thesis on design principles and principle languages.
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principles-wiki.net is created.
- 2013
- December 2013
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Matthias and Christian begin working on the Design Types questionnaire.
- 2014
- October 2014
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Paper-based beta version of the questionnaire is finished.
- November 2014
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design-types.net goes online.
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Beta version of the questionnaire is online.
- 2015
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More work on design-types.net and the questionnaire: descriptions, coat of arms, statistics, ...
- October 2015
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Java Magazin publishes an article on Design Types (German).
- December 2015
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By the end of the year we consider Design Types final.
- 2016
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Spreadshirt integration, comments, and minor enhancements of the website.
- 2017
- April 2017
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Started working on Design Cards.
- December 2017
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Beta version of the Design Matrix is finished and sent to several test groups.
- 2018
- January 2018
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Beta version of the Design Cards is finished.
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Several test groups start using the Design Cards.
- April 2018
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Design Matrix for download.
- June 2018
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We present Design Cards and Design Types at Entwicklertage Karlsruhe.
- July 2018
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Kickstarter campaign for the Design Cards.
- August 2018
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golem.de publishes an article about Design Types.
- December 2018
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Shipping the printed Design Cards to our backers.
- 2019
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Design Cards PDF for download.