Prezi started in a very organic way; Adam and Peter - an internationally recognized emerging designer and a highly skilled computer scientist - have been lecturing extensively. Due to the limitations of slide presentations they developed their own method by using scripted maps, to hold these lectures. Over time (last 4 years) their methods matured, got refined.
We prefer not looking at trends and following them. Rather, we learn about culture and respond with technology. We also believe in humanity’s desire for creativity. Therefore, we create the tools that allow self-expression to take shape.
Peter arrives to Zui Labs after having helped several start-ups launch on an international scale. He brings with him experience from Sweden, Japan, US and Hungary. He recently published a book on
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Szilveszter loves Python, GUI and Web development. He is an open source enthusiast, and contributor to various projects. He blogs occasionally at phanatic.hu
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Peter has been assistant professor at the new media department of Budapest University of Technology after having been the lead developer of Origo.hu, Hungary’s largest Internet Company. Peter co-founded Kitchen Budapest with Adam.
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Zoltan arrives to Prezi after being a freelance writer, blogger and online journalism lecturer. Today he manages the Prezi community, builds interaction channels, and communicates with our users in every possible way. Check out more of his personal work on Kultplay. www.kultplay.hu and his Tweets www.twitter.com/_RaZo_
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An architect and interaction designer, Adam is interested in the cultural qualities of new technologies, and to explore these he creates installations and experiments that blend spaces, technologies and interactivity. Adam has been developing nonlinear zooming interfaces since 2001. Adam co-founded Kitchen Budapest with Peter. More at aether.hu
Zui Labs LTDPrezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides.
The ideology of Prezi is based our natural knowledge on how to coordinate ourselves in space; traditionally all information we have had to process and store used to be linked to physical space. That is where our minds have developed good skills in orienting ourselves. Despite all this digital information today is mostly presented to us as a moniker of printed matter. Of course printing has served us well to store (and shape) information for the the last six centuries, however, with the wide appearance of computing we saw the same old pattern: old forms got translated to new media without exploring its full potential. Most of the computer systems which present us with information today use the old paradigm of prints and slides: arranging information on a framed 2d static space. We could argue that these (at least their forms) are merely the side effect of Gutenberg's galaxy.