Apple Design Awards 2007
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
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sun Chiu said 1:09AM on 6-13-2007
Those were some really cool widgets they chose.
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Brian Wyrick said 1:32AM on 6-13-2007
Awesome apps, and awesome developers.
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Chris Furniss said 2:02AM on 6-13-2007
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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umijin said 3:30AM on 6-13-2007
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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Ronan said 4:22AM on 6-13-2007
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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umijin said 6:52AM on 6-13-2007
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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JeffDM said 8:00AM on 6-13-2007
rebeccauuc; please don't spam this (or any other) site.
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Josh said 8:13AM on 6-13-2007
Do we have a link/screenshots for Delicious Library or iBank?
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neil said 8:18AM on 6-13-2007
how does a program win for being an alpha? (delicious library?) seems silly.
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artifex said 9:30AM on 6-13-2007
Neil: money.
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artifex said 9:31AM on 6-13-2007
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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Galley said 10:56AM on 6-13-2007
I know one thing, Sandvox has the best app icon ever!
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Tony said 12:17PM on 6-13-2007
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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Matt said 8:47PM on 6-13-2007
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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