MEDIUM: PAGE
AUTHOR: jn
DATE: 02/2006

Explosive!

A true highlight was the lecture from Tanja Diezmann who is teaching at Anhalt University for Applied Science. Based on the interface of the student project "Digitarium" she showed advanced students projects. They gave the feeling that we are living in the Stone Age applied of information visualization. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: PAGE
AUTHOR: svg
DATE: 12/2005

Interface Generator

[ ... ] CSS, Content-Management- and Template Systems facilitates the working live of Web Designers today. But the transferring of a Web Layout to mobile devices for example is a complete recommencement. The Integrated Interface System (IIS) by pReview puts on just here. It simplifieds the production of applications by difficult medias.
[ ... ] For any customer all over the world and fitting to every Corporate Design applications should be easy, consistent and fast to developing, cherishing and upgrading whether for Web, Intranet, Offline or Mobile. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: Shantou University
AUTHOR:
DATE: 10/2005

Shantou Universtiy

[ Language: Chinese]

MEDIUM: Shantou University
AUTHOR:
DATE: 10/2004

Shantou Universtiy

[ Language: Chinese]

MEDIUM: South China Morning Post
AUTHOR:
DATE: 05/2004

Sky's the limit for Asia's whirl city

[ ... ] Most of what the audience will see are 3-D digital images created by technies John Wong and Pong lam, along with Professor Diezmann and Tobias Gremmler of Berlin-based digital design firm pReview. [ ... ] pReview is working with 15 local artists in this cutting-edge performance, which tries to capture Hong Kong's unique and ever-changing identity [ ... ]

MEDIUM: milk (China)
AUTOR:
DATUM: 2004

pReview Interview

[ Language: Chinese ]

MEDIUM: PAGE
AUTHOR: cg
DATE: 09/2003

Through Space and Time
»Grids for the Dynamic Image«

The digital age has prompted a number of revolutions, not least in the design of moving images. Instead of positioning individual elements by hand, designers are nowadays often put in the position of a director or producer, dictating the on-screen events by inputting parameters. These automation processes are the subject of a new, English-language book by Tanja Diezmann and Tobias Gremmler, who run the pReview studio in Berlin, which specialises in TV, Web and motion graphics. Tanja Diezmann also works as a Professor of Interface Design at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau. Consequently, the topic is approached in an investigative spirit, and, in addition, the reader is presented with practical examples from the authors' own work as to how theoretical principles can be implemented. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: design report
AUTHOR: Carla S. Erdmann
DATE: 09/2003

Improvisation Instead of Anticipation

[ ... ] »In the future, the task of the designer will involve designing systems that are capable of behaving in a self-referential manner« [ ... ]

MEDIUM: Die Welt
AUTHOR: Michael Gneuss
DATE: 11.05.2003

Complex Does Not Have To Mean Complicated

[ ... ] Any company concerned about the usability of its products would be well advised to consult pReview. Take, for example, a company that has built up a range of more than 100 software developments, which are all operated in different ways. pReview is brought in to design the interfaces in such a way that, once users have learnt how to use one of the software products, the other solutions will feel as familiar to them as possible. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: designNET (Korea)
DATE: 04/2003

pReview digital design

pReview digital design was founded by Professor Tanja Diezmann and Tobias Gremmler. The two partners have been breaking the boundaries between various media, thus, exploring the channels between the virtuality and the reality. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: PAGE( S.132)
DATE: 04/2002

Motion Graphics by pReview

The Berlin agency pReview have brought out their first collection of motion graphics on EyeWire. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: PAGE (S.25)
AUTHOR: Markus Linden
DATE: 04/2002

What You See Is Where You Are
City Guide for Pocket PCs

The Berlin software firm Gate5, which specialises in location-based services, commissioned the agency pReview, which is also based in Berlin, to develop a navigational structure for their so-called city guide. The task consisted of creating a user interface that would make the complex range of options easily accessible to users, while simultaneously ensuring that the solution would function on a variety of platforms and mobile terminal devices. [ ... ] The navigational structure was developed in a way that allowed all the functions to be accessed via a consistent menu system. To achieve this, Julia Dietsch from pReview designed 16 x 16 pixel icons, which reveal their function through their design. In overview displays, for example when you zoom out from the map, the thematic icons turn into coloured squares. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: Die Welt
AUTHOR: Bettina Seipp
DATE: 13.03.2002, CeBit

Hi, I know exactly where you are

[ ... ] »The trick is to display the relationships between the place, the information and the person in a visual format. Two or three clicks should be all it takes to explain the geographical and socio-cultural environment to the user and to establish group communication« [ ... ]

MEDIUM: Berliner Morgenpost
AUTHOR: Jens Kohrs
DATE: 04.02.2002

Working For Users
Work on the human-machine interface. The Berlin-based company pReview wants to make technology simpler.

[ ... ] Together with Tobias Gremmler, she founded the digital design specialist agency in April 2000 with a clear aim in mind: instead of copying reality and simply »packing the world into the computer«, Diezmann is determined to integrate the users' perceptions. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: NOVUM
AUTHOR: Stefan Benaburge
DATE: 02/2002

Showroom : pReview's »Wonderful User-friendly World«
The successful Berlin-based agency »pReview digital design GmbH« is firing on all cylinders. »Cross-media design« is not just a buzzword for them, it's a mission! If digital visions are going to become a reality anywhere, it will be here!

[ ... ] Tanja Diezmann's definition of good interface design is that it quickly takes you to what you are looking for and is capable of adapting to the user. The range of services offered by the seven-person team includes design, research and consulting in the fields of interface and cross-media design, motion graphics, new media events and digital culture. The primary aim of their work is to achieve user-friendly integration of the still largely separate communication channels. pReview cannot be tied down to specific industries, since visualisation through digital media is anyway already on the agenda throughout all industries. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: design report
AUTHOR: Juliane Grützner
DATE: 10/2001

Real and Virtual – Interface Design

[ ... ] Human communication is increasingly likely to take place via platforms, portals and networks, not just on the Internet, but also in our increasingly digitalised everyday life. It is this interface between the real and virtual world where the concepts designed by the digital design agency pReview come into play. Tanja Diezmann, Professor of Interface Design at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau, Germany, and Tobias Gremmler, a media designer, infuse all their projects with the aim of designing a user-friendly digital world characterised by easy access, the clear presentation of complex contents, clarity and transparency. One example of their work is the Web work platform they designed for Pixelpark on the sinking of the Baltic Sea ferry Estonia (1994). A clear structure provides visualisation of topics and events, which can be successively added to by visitors to the platform. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: Handelsblatt
AUTHOR: Chris Löwer
DATE: 27.07.2001

Professor Tanja Diezmann of pReview Finds the Right Internet Style

The pReview founder shows how to link up business and science. Just 32 years old, but already a professor and founder of a new business, Tanja Diezmann explains to companies how to show their best side on the Internet.

MEDIUM: PAGE
AUTHOR: Markus Linden
DATE: 07/2001

Check It Out

With the new economy crisis in full swing, usability became the buzzword on everyone's lips. But how exactly does the scientific examination of websites work? Page asked usability experts and Web designers.

MEDIUM: PAGE
AUTHOR: Tanja Diezmann
DATE: 07/2001

Windows in a Diving Suit

Mac OS X was highly praised and lauded by the press. Yet, however innovative the link between the UNIX system and the Mac OS interface, did it really have to look like it does? Tanja Diezmann takes a critical look at the interface to find out.

MEDIUM: PAGE
AUTHOR: Markus Linden
DATE: 06/2001

On the Road

PowerBooks, FireWire and Co. have made desktop computers virtually superfluous, or have they? PAGE interviewed creative designers to find out the advantages and disadvantages of nomadic mobile existence. Tanja Diezmann and Tobias Gremmler of pReview took just five days to record on location the material for a total of eight songs of the Hong Kong pop concert, edit it on a PowerBook and integrate it in the VJ engine.

MEDIUM: Die Welt
AUTHOR: Bettina Seipp
DATE: 16.03.2001

Interfaces for Data Streams

Hundreds, maybe even thousands of television channels and, on top of that, the accumulated contents of the Internet: will the kind of mobile TV Web accounts predicted for the future be manageable in any realistic sense? Tanja Diezmann (31), Professor of Interface Design at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau, thinks they will, as long as the human-machine interface is structured differently. »All the standard interfaces used up to now are totally dependent on buttons, windows, settings and functionalities. And the growing number of interactive possibilities makes these interfaces more and more confusing.« Which is why Diezmann is asking us to renounce the systems used to date and is recommending a complete rethink towards making the processes involved in navigation more visible. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: PAGE
AUTHOR: Jutta Nachtwey
DATE: 07/2000

Alexandria and Cyberspace

Under the motto »Navigation through text, images and space«, the Forum Typographie held the 17th edition of its national meeting in mid-May in Hamburg. [ ... ]

The major highlight in the field of new media was the talk given by Professor Tanja Diezmann. She presented interface structures, in which the user can navigate without the use of external control elements. Examples included a workflow management tool for multimedia studios, in which the projects appear as spatially arranged time rings, so that each team member can track progress and status. If a participant causes a delay, then this is reflected visually as a distortion. Moreover, each individual can single out his or her individual thread in the overall circular display, thereby obtaining a visualisation of all the work steps that are relevant to that individual. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: Neue Westfälische
AUTHOR: Christine Boldt
DATE: 04.04.2000

Machines Are Built to Serve

31-year-old Professor Tanja Diezmann works to improve user interfaces [ ... ] The young Professor has spent two years teaching in the Design Department at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau. Her specialist subject is Interface Design. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: Die Welt
AUTHOR: Bettina Seipp
DATE: 24.02.2000

The Internet Needs Different Communication Structures

There are convincing arguments to suggest that, for the sake of simplicity, expert conferences, seminars and training events in the future should be conducted on the Internet. However, this would require further development of the communication structures. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: Die Welt
AUTHOR: Tanja Diezmann
DATE: 24.02.2000, CeBit

»Navigable Structures« – Orientation in Data Space

[ ... ] The less clear the situation, the greater the desire for a firm foothold and orientation. This particularly applies to the case of the new »digital parallel worlds«, since this is where our familiar, ordered system of space and time breaks down. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: FAZ
AUTHOR: Tanja Diezmann
DATE: 22.02.2000, CeBit

Is This User-Friendly?

[ ... ] Nowadays, complex sequences of actions frequently lead to a labyrinth of hierarchical menu navigation (e.g. mobile phones, order processes on the Web, etc.). We have to ask why the range of information on offer and the way it is presented is not being adapted to changing realities, and why it is not doing justice to the quantity of information involved, and the dynamics and complexity of this information. [ ... ]

MEDIUM: Süddeutsche Zeitung
AUTHOR: Ulf Brychcy
DATE: 18.01.2000

At the User Interface of Being

The ideal and the digital: in Dessau, Germany, Tanja Diezmann teaches how we could choose to design computers in a more user-friendly way.

MEDIUM: PAGE
AUTHOR: Tanja Diezmann
DATE: 07/1999

WebTV/ITV Visions – »Technology Sets Standards – So Why Not Ideas?«

Search on the Web today for the terms WebTV or ITV, and you will mainly get hits from 1998, and most of those will have a technical slant. The topic of front-end design tends to be completely ignored. Microsoft's takeover of the WebTV company in the middle of last year may have reignited interest in the topic, but even that was not enough to stimulate any further development of the media. Currently, design of the front-end (i. e. the interface that the user will employ in the future to interact with the device and with the global data pool) is probably not seen as being particularly relevant. What it involves is not simply the design of the buttons and the new design guidelines to be applied to the TV monitor, but rather the development of new visual and media-based forms of communication, which will enable users to operate and, above all, to enjoy the new range of services to be developed.