Apple has announced the winners of the 2007 Apple Design Awards, and as always, the winners are a selection of the very best of OS X applications. While a good deal of the winning developers tonight received their second or even third award, it's nice to see a bunch of smaller and lesser known first time winners mixed in. Results after the jump.
Leopard Application
Winner – Delicious Library 2.0 (alpha)
Runner-Up – iBank 3.0a
User Experience
Winner – Coda 1.0
Runner-Up – Sandvox 1.2
Developer Tool
Winner – CSSEdit 2.5
Runner-Up – rooSwitch 1.1.8
Game
Winner – World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade 2.0
Runner-Up – Wacky Mini Golf 1.01
Scientific Computing Solution
Winner – Papers 1.0
Runner-Up – SingleCrystal 1.3
Dashboard Widget
Winner – BART Widget 1.0
Runner-Up – PEMDAS 1.1
Student Product
Winner – Picturesque 1.0
Runner-Up – Pathway 1.0
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-13-2007 @ 1:09AM
Sun Chiu said...
Those were some really cool widgets they chose.
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6-13-2007 @ 1:32AM
Brian Wyrick said...
Awesome apps, and awesome developers.
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6-13-2007 @ 2:02AM
Chris Furniss said...
It's a sad state of Mac gaming when World of Warcraft is followed up closely by WACKY MINI GOLF.
Sheeeeeesh. Why even include the category?
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6-13-2007 @ 3:30AM
umijin said...
These developers won before for 4 Peaks - a very nice application for molecular biologists. Although Papers has some promise, it isn't really a finished product yet. This one is surprising. Were pickings slim this year?
For user experience - both winners are for coding web pages/sites. I find it strange that Coda (which seems very powerful) would get a high rating for user experience, as it seems you would have to be a user with alot of experience in html/php coding to use it. Sandvox is an app anyone can use.
And I can't understand why Apple would have/award a Leopard Category when none of us can fairly evaluate these apps ourselves. Kind of pointless.
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6-13-2007 @ 4:22AM
Ronan said...
I was delighted to see Papers in the awards. It's hard to appreciate this application unless you work in the biomedical science area, but it's a powerful solution to a very specialised problem - and given the size of the biomedical research community, there's a big market out there.
While this is only version 1, it already has very powerful capabilities.
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6-13-2007 @ 6:52AM
umijin said...
I'm not sure why being a biomedical scientist gives you better perspective than non-biomedical scientists like myself.
Perhaps because the PubMed database is the only online database supported by Papers, someone in your field has more reason to appreciate it.
I'll admit it certainly has improved alot since the prerelease versions, but it's not there yet.
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6-13-2007 @ 8:00AM
JeffDM said...
rebeccauuc; please don't spam this (or any other) site.
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6-13-2007 @ 8:13AM
Josh said...
Do we have a link/screenshots for Delicious Library or iBank?
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6-13-2007 @ 8:18AM
neil said...
how does a program win for being an alpha? (delicious library?) seems silly.
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6-13-2007 @ 9:30AM
artifex said...
Neil: money.
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6-13-2007 @ 9:31AM
artifex said...
Neil: just kidding. Since Leopard isn't officially out yet, you can't expect programs that require it to be out yet, either.
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6-13-2007 @ 10:56AM
Galley said...
I know one thing, Sandvox has the best app icon ever!
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6-13-2007 @ 12:17PM
Tony said...
As a web developer, I tried Coda...it was ok, but lacking in several key areas. So, for me, the user experience was a C+/B- at best...
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6-13-2007 @ 8:47PM
Matt said...
Check out the student project winner, Picturesque 1.0 description:
"Picturesque is a bitch image beautifier with a simple, modern, drag-and-drop interface."
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