Apple Design Award Winners Announced at WWDC 2012
Apple has announced the winners of the Apple Design Awards (ADA) at WWDC 2012, as noted by The Loop. Apps are chosen based on the following criteria:
- Design: Well designed apps are delightful, elegant, intuitive, engaging, exciting, compelling, and reliable.
- Innovation: Innovative apps are revolutionary, inspirational, unique, and do things in completely new and exciting ways.
- Technical excellence: Technically advanced apps have excellent performanceand make extensive use of the latest Apple technologies to deliver innovative, platform differentiating, and advanced features.
Here are the following winners:
iPhone Winners
DM1 – The Drum Machine by Fingerlab
Jetpack Joyride by Halfbrick Studios
App: National Parks by National Geographic by National Geographic Society / Rally Interactive
iPad Winners
Paper by Fifty Three
Bobo Explores Light by GameCollage
DM1 – The Drum Machine by Fingerlab
Student Winners
App: DaWindci (iPad) by Reality Twist GmbH, Mimimi Productions, Mediadesign Highschool of Applied Sciences
Little Star (iPad) by BiBoBox Studio, Dalian Nationalities University
Mac Winners
Deus Ex: Human Revolution Ultimate Edition by Feral Interactive Ltd
Limbo by Playdead ApS
App: Sketch by Bohemian Coding
Here’s a pic of Jetpack Joyride accepting their award (via @two_bulls):
Apple’s website listing ADA winners has not been updated yet. You can check out last year’s winners here.
Update 1: Apple has listed the 2012 ADA winners on their website.