Diesdas Digital is your partner for all things digital.
Diesdas is a company for digital clarity. We combine strategy, design and technology to cut through the noise and launch digital experiences people will tell their friends about.
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ZEIT ONLINE- Strategy
- UI/UX Design
- Development
- Brand Design
- Strategy
- UI/UX Design
- Development
- Strategy
- Brand Design
- Web Design
Building a digital memorial
Arolsen Archives- Strategy
- UI/UX Design
- Development
- Web Design
Giving wiiings to people and ideas
Red Bull- Strategy
- UI/UX Design
- Development
Creating a digital ecosystem
Holmes Place- Strategy
- UI/UX Design
- Development
- Web Design
How we can help
Every company is at a different stage in their digital journey. We help you figure out what to make and how to make it.
Brand strategy
Digital brands are always evolving. We partner with you to define your company vision or to reinvigorate your existing brand strategy.
Product strategy
You tell us what you want to achieve, and we help you find the way to get there. From your company goals to the technical requirements, we’ve got you.
Digital transformation
Creating resilient strategies for your digital future will set you up for lasting success. Together, we assess your digital readiness and identify new business models and ventures.
Digital life has never moved so fast. We’ll partner with you to define how your brand and products should look, feel and behave to reach users and stand out from the crowd.
Brand design
There’s more to a brand than meets the eye. Visuals, interactions and products are all fundamental to shaping how people think and feel about your brand. It’s the connection you create with your audience.
Product design
The most loved digital products sit at the intersection of great to use and great to look at. Together, we’ll build something that hits the mark.
User experience and game design
Meaningful and fun experiences lead to lasting relationships with your audiences. We’ll guide you on how to keep them coming back for more.
There’s an art to finding the right solution amongst endless possibilities. We’ll help you launch reliable and beautiful custom applications, sites and products.
Full-stack development
From e-commerce shops to global brand sites, we design, develop and deploy custom websites end-to-end. Clean, future-proof code so you can adapt quickly and scale up as needed.
Custom applications
We’re fluent in a range technologies and languages. Our years of experience ensures we build secure, integrated and scalable solutions for our partners.
Interactive experiences + games
We design and build engaging experiences for playful customer activation. Taking products from functional to fun.
Teamwork makes the dream work. We’ll be your partners, not just service providers.
Agile methods
We use Agile methods to reduce complexity and make the best use of skills and budgets. It helps us do the right thing at the right time.
Healthy projects
Planning is sexy. So is project health. Good organisation allows us to manage project risks without compromising creativity.
Beyond the brief
Design and technology can shape things for the better. We build for tomorrow, thinking beyond constraints, focusing on the people who engage with our work.
Case: Building a digital memorial
Digitising the Arolsen Archives, one name at a time.
The #everynamecounts project aims to make the largest collection of documents on the victims and survivors of National Socialism accessible to everyone, worldwide. To help volunteers around the world digitise the documents we designed and built a new intuitive indexing tool. Every added name helps families searching for answers find traces of their relatives' fates.
The Arolsen Archives currently contains over 30 million records referencing the lives of 17.5 million individuals. The vast collection includes transport lists, prisoner registration cards and letters. Digitising these documents gives volunteers the opportunity to actively commemorate victims of Nazi persecution. Together, users are creating a digital memorial, one name at a time.
- Design
Arolsen wanted to significantly enhance the indexing experience for their volunteers. Their previous indexing tool, Zooniverse (the world’s largest platform for people-powered research), was limited in meeting the unique requirements of the #everynamecounts project.
We designed and built a highly flexible indexing tool that enables the Arolsen team to create custom workflows for each collection. The user friendly interface enables step-by-step transcription and provides helpful tips and contextual information about the documents.
- UX
- UI
Each document provides a glimpse into the life of an individual. To reflect this, we designed the indexing experience to put the names and stories of the victims and survivors at the forefront.
The clear, uncomplicated indexing process allows users to work at their own pace and focus on one topic at a time. Each workflow concludes with the document story – a chance for users to review and consider the new information they’re adding to an individuals path of persecution.
- Help
We designed the new indexing tool to be accessible for both first-time and one-time users, particularly in schools and educational settings, as well as a more universal audience. Help is provided each step of the way to guide users in how to correctly capture complex information like abbreviations or hard to read hand writing.
- Tab Bar
The new, simplified UI brings all of the key features of the indexing experience under one roof. We added a tab bar to group all of them in one place and make it easier for users to navigate the extensive functionalities. The tab bar shows the document metadata and information, FAQs and guides, and links out to the profile and new integrated user forum. We designed it to be adaptable for future features and scale with Arolsen’s needs.
- Backend
We designed a bespoke backend system for the Arolsen Archives team. The Workflow Builder is a modular form editor, designed to help create indexing workflows intuitively. It includes multiple field types, from integers to radio fields. Workflows are fully customisable, adaptable and easy to use.
The indexing tool was launched in partnership with the global #everynamecounts Holocaust Remembrance campaign in January 2023. The goal: digitally transcribe 30,000 names in one week. Together with volunteers from around the world – including schools, the German parliament and police departments – over 70,000 names were collected. Doubling the target of the campaign sends a powerful message - but this global social justice action isn't quite finished.
Millions of documents still need transcribing so the names and fates of those persecuted may be found. Contribute to the digital memorial here, and follow the progress of the project here.
Team
- Jonathan Muth
- Strategy
- Christina Breuer
- Strategy
- Natalia Polikarpova
- Project Management
- Sophie Nickolai
- Project Management
- Tal Chodos
- Design
- Swetlana Dmitriev
- Design
- Macario Ortega
- Development
- Sev Furneaux
- Development
Deliverables
- User research
- Strategic development
- User experience design
- User interface design
- Backend development
The #everynamecounts indexing tool harnesses the best of technology to enable people around the world to stand up for respect, diversity, and democracy.