UPDATE
June 7, 2017
Apple Design Awards celebrate the best in innovation and creativity
On Monday, June 5, Apple handed out its annual Apple Design Awards, which celebrate the talent, artistry and creativity of developers who set the standard for ideal app design. Now in its 20th year, the Awards recognise excellence in design, innovation and technology in apps and games across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. This year’s honourees represent eight countries around the world: Austria, Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, Singapore, Slovenia and the US.
2017 Apple Design Award Winners
- <strong>Airmail 3 (Italy)</strong> — This fully accessible mail client was designed specifically for iOS, macOS and watchOS. Email workflow is optimised with extensive customisations, custom actions and deep integration with a wide range of apps and services.
- <strong>Bear (Italy)</strong> — Bear is a flexible, elegant writing tool that takes full advantage of essential technologies to provide a consistently fast experience on iPhone, iPad or Mac.
- <strong>Blackbox (US)</strong> — Blackbox is a puzzle game that is fully accessible. It takes a traditional touch-driven visual interface and adds a sonic interface that enables a new world of gameplay for everyone.
- <strong>Elk (Singapore)</strong> — This innovative Apple Watch app, written in Swift, enables quick conversion between 150+ currencies worldwide. It’s simple to use, and quickly infers currencies to convert based on locale and current time zone.
- <strong>Enlight (Israel)</strong> — Exclusive to iPhone and iPad, Enlight is a photo editing app with a collection of tools rivalling professional-grade desktop mainstays. It harnesses the full power of the CPU and GPU on iPhone for high performance and low latency.
- <strong>Kitchen Stories (Germany)</strong> — Written almost entirely in Swift, Kitchen Stories is an impressive app that enables anyone to cook a delicious meal. It works across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
- <strong>Lake (Slovenia)</strong> — This colouring app, written in Swift, offers high-quality curated illustrations from local and renowned artists. Lake is optimised for Apple Pencil and takes full advantage of powerful iOS and macOS technologies.
- <strong>Mushroom 11 (US)</strong> — This platformer combines intriguing landscapes, hand-painted levels and immersive gameplay, and features multi-gesture support, 3D Touch optimisations and left-handed mode.
- <strong>Old Man’s Journey (Austria)</strong> — Old Man’s Journey is a puzzle adventure game that is optimised for Metal, and uses a clever landscape-shifting game mechanic to solve puzzles and reveal an emotional narrative.
- <strong>Severed (Canada)</strong> — Severed is a narrative-driven adventure game with original style and numerous iOS-only optimisations, including 3D touch, peek and pop in-game maps and iCloud for syncing gameplay between devices.
- <strong>Splitter Critters (Canada)</strong> — This arcade puzzle game was selected for its touch-centric gameplay, absorbing sound design and minimalist paper-craft aesthetic.
- <strong>Things 3 (Germany)</strong> — Things 3 is a personal task manager that is deeply integrated with iOS, macOS and watchOS, including Calendar and Reminders, Split Views, 3D Touch, Apple Watch complications and Touch Bar support on Mac.
To read reviews, learn more about the developers and download the apps, visit the App Store.
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Photos of Apple Design Award winners