Design Types

The Timeline.

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