Award ceremony by Apple
The Apple Design Awards (ADAs ) is an event hosted by Apple Inc. at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference . The purpose of the event is to recognize the best and most innovative Macintosh and iOS software and hardware produced by independent developers , as well as the best and most creative uses of Apple's products. The ADAs are awarded in categories that vary each year. The awards have been presented annually since 1997. For the first two years of their existence, they were known as the "Human Interface Design Excellence Awards" (HIDE Awards).[citation needed
Since 2003, the physical award given to those recognized at the awards event bore an Apple logo that would glow when touched. The trophy is a 3.9 in (9.9 cm) long aluminum cube which weighs 55.5 oz (1.57 kg).[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
1997 Human Interface Design Excellence (HIDE) Award[ 4] Category Place Product Developed by Most Innovative 1st Kai's Power GOO 1.0 MetaTools, Inc. 2nd Starry Night Deluxe 2.0 Sienna Software, Inc. 3rd YOYO Telephone Manager for Macintosh 1.5.1 Big Island Communications, Inc Most Elegant 1st Starry Night Deluxe 2.0 Sienna Software, Inc. 2nd CalcWorks 1.5.2 John Brochu 3rd AMBER: Journeys Beyond Changeling, Inc. Best Look & Feel 1st YOYO Telephone Manager for Macintosh 1.5.1 Big Island Communications, Inc. 2nd Adobe Illustrator 6.0 Adobe Systems, Inc. 3rd Symantec Visual Cafe for Macintosh 1.0 Symantec Corp. Best Overall Design 1st YOYO Telephone Manager for Macintosh 1.5.1 Big Island Communications, Inc. 2nd Starry Night Deluxe 2.0 Sienna Software, Inc. 3rd Kai's Power GOO 1.0 MetaTools, Inc.
1998 Category Place Product Developed by Most Innovative 1st Flash 2 Macromedia 2nd Legacy of Time: The Journeyman Project 3 Presto Studios, Inc. 3rd Office 98 Macintosh Edition Microsoft Corporation Best Look & Feel 1st Preflight Pro 1.0 Extensis Corporation 2nd PlusMaker 1.0.1 Alsoft, Inc. 3rd Virtual PC 2.0Connectix Corporation Best Apple Technology Adoption 1st Stuffit Delux 4.5 Aladdin Systems, Inc. 2nd PowerMail 2.0 CTM Development 3rd FaceSpan 3.0 Digital Technology International
1999 Category Place Product Developed by Best New Product 1st REALbasic 1.0 REAL Software 2nd Disk Warrior 1.0 Alsoft Most Innovative 1st Disk Warrior 1.0 Alsoft 2nd REALbasic 1.0 REAL Software Best Macintosh User Experience 1st Food Chain 1.0 Cajun Games 2nd REALbasic 1.0 REAL Software Best Apple Technology Adoption 1st Cutie Mascot Jr. 1.5 Koshin Graphic Systems 2nd Virtual Game Station Connectix
2000 Category Place Product Developed by Best New Product 1st ViaVoice Millennium Edition IBM 2nd Thinking Home 1.0 Always Thinking, Inc. Most Innovative Product 1st LiveStage Professional Totally Hip Software Inc. 2nd Thinking Home 1.0 Always Thinking, Inc. Best Look & Feel 1st Math Mysteries 1.0Tom Snyder Productions 2nd REALbasic 2.0 REAL Software, Inc. Best Apple Technology Adoption 1st Thinking Home 1.0 Always Thinking, Inc. 2nd LiveStage Professional Totally Hip Software Inc.
2001 Category Place Product Developed by Best New Mac OS X Product 1st OmniWeb 4.0The Omni Group 2nd Xtools 1.0.3 Tenon Intersystems Most Innovative Mac OS X Product 1st Xtools 1.0.3 Tenon Intersystems 2nd MYOB AccountEdge 1.0 MYOB US, Inc. Best Mac OS X User Experience 1st OmniWeb 4.0 The Omni Group 2nd Drive 10 1.0.0 Micromat, Inc. Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption 1st AutoCompleter 1.0 Catchy Software 2nd REALbasic 3.2 REAL Software, Inc.
2002 Category Place Product Developed by Best New Mac OS X Product 1st Toon Boom Studio 1.1 Toon Boom 2nd Marketcircle DayLite 1.0.1 Marketcircle Inc. Most Innovative Mac OS X Product 1st Watson 1.5Karelia Software, LLC 2nd Toon Boom Studio 1.1 Toon Boom Best Mac OS X User Experience 1st OmniGraffle 2.0The Omni Group 2nd STX 1.0 Salon Transcripts Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption 1st OmniGraffle 2.0 The Omni Group 2nd Vektor 3 3.1.3 Manfred Schubert Best Mac OS X Open Source Port 1st TeXShop 1.19Richard Koch, Mathematics Department, University of Oregon in collaboration with Gerben Wierda and Dirk Olmes Mathematics Department, University of Oregon 2nd SIDekick 1.1 Axel Wefers Best Mac OS X Student Product 1st MacJournal 2.1Dan Schimpf 2nd CanCombineIcons 2.1.0 David Remahl
2003 Category Place Product Developed by Best Mac OS X Product (Best of Show) 1st Salling Clicker 1.5 Salling Software 2nd World Book 2003 Jaguar Edition Software MacKiev Most Innovative Mac OS X Product 1st Salling Clicker 1.5 Salling Software 2nd Starry Night Pro 4.0 SPACE.com Canada Best Mac OS X User Experience 1st Starry Night Backyard 4.0 SPACE.com Canada 2nd Transmit 2Panic Inc. Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption 1st World Book 2003 Jaguar Edition Software MacKiev 2nd Spell Catcher X Evan Gross Best Mac OS X Student Product 1st Hydra 1.0.1 (now SubEthaEdit ) Martin Ott, Martin Pittenauer, Dominik Wagner, and Ulrich Bauer 2nd SignalScope 1.0.5 Benjamin Faber Best Mac OS X Use of Open Source 1st Fugu University of Michigan 2nd VLC 0.5.3Samuel Hocevar Best Mac OS X Server Solution 1st iNquiry 1.0 BioTeam 2nd Radmind 0.8.4University of Michigan Best QuickTime Content Created by a Student 1st Drive By Punch Stephen Mebs 2nd Nature and Water Mario Palomera Best QuickTime Content Created by an Individual 1st OICs MusicBox Presenting Superfluid Robert West and Michael Schaff 2nd Paraphonic Midnight Sounds Jonathan Puckey, Andreas Pihlström & Linus Wahlstedt Best QuickTime Content Created by a Company 1st BMW Films Campaign—"The Hire" Enhanced Film Experience Fallon Worldwide 2nd The Beautiful Mistake QuickTime Player Tubatomic Studio
2004 Category Place Product Developed by Best Mac OS X Product 1st Big Bang Chess 1.0Freeverse Software 2nd Unison (usenet client) 1.0.2aPanic Inc. Best Product New to Mac OS 1st Contribute 2Macromedia Inc. 2nd GraphViz 1.12 (v11)Pixelglow Software Most Innovative Mac OS X Product 1st ToySight 1.0 Freeverse Software 2nd SwordfishExpress 2.0 buyolympia.com Best Mac OS X User Experience 1st Unison 1.0.2a Panic Inc. 2nd SOHO Business Cards 1.0 Chronos LLC Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption 1st Big Bang Chess 1.0Freeverse Software 2nd PulpFiction 1.0 Freshly Squeezed Software Best Mac OS X Open Source Product 1st GraphViz 1.12 (v11) Pixelglow Software 2nd PureFTPd Manager 1.2 Jean-Matthieu Schaffhauser Best Mac OS X Server Solution 1st iNquiry 4.05d The BioTeam 2nd gridMathematica 1.1Wolfram Research, Inc. Best Mac OS X Entertainment Product 1st Unreal Tournament 2004 MacSoft 2nd Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne Blizzard Entertainment Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution 1st Mac TetrUSS v010804 NASA Langley Research Center 2nd Volocity 2.6.1 Improvision Honorable Mention IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition 8.1 IBM Best Mac OS X Student Product 1st 4Peaks Alexander Griekspoor, Tom Groothuis, Oncology Graduate School Amsterdam 2nd Curvus Pro X Simon Bovet, University of Zurich, Switzerland Best QuickTime Content for Education 1st Conflict Lab's Rotunda Conflict Lab, Inc. 2nd Commanding Heights WGBH Interactive Best QuickTime Content for Promotion 1st Robbie Williams "Knebworth" QuickTime Promo Bluish, Ltd. 2nd Yamashiro Restaurant Virtual Tour Axis Images Best QuickTime Content for Entertainment 1st FreeCaster Sports Barsark AB 2nd Bright and Shine Antonio Hui Best Performance Demo of a Shipping Product 1st ATI Technologies Inc, ATI Animusic's Pipe Dream Demo 2nd ATI Technologies Inc, ATI Rendering with Natural Light Demo Most Innovative Apple Technology Performance Demo 1st Advanced Analytic System Design Inc., Freefall 2nd Symbiot Symbiot iSIMS
2005[ 5] Category Place Product Developed by Best Mac OS X Tiger Technology Adoption 1st Transmit 3.2 Panic, Inc. 2nd iScale 1.7 equinux Special Mention OmniOutliner 3.0.3The Omni Group Best Mac OS X User Experience 1st Delicious Library 1.5Delicious Monster 2nd 3D Weather Globe & Atlas Max OS X Edition Software MacKiev Best Product New to Mac OS X 1st Comic Life 1.1 plasq 2nd Delicious Library 1.5 Delicious Monster Special Mention eDrawings for Mac 2006 SolidWorks Best Mac OS X Entertainment Product 1st World of Warcraft Blizzard Entertainment 2nd Jammin' Racer 1.01DanLabGames Best Use of Open Source 1st OsiriX 1.6.4Antoine Rosset, Osman Ratib, Lance Pysher, David Davies-Payne, Luca Spadola, Bruce Rakes 2nd Blender 2.36Blender Foundation Special Mention AdiumX Evan Schoenberg, Adam Iser Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution 1st DataTank 2005-5 Visual Data Tools, Inc. 2nd OsiriX 1.6.4 Antoine Rosset, Osman Ratib, Lance Pysher, David Davies-Payne, Luca Spadola, Bruce Rakes Special Mention Mathematica Wolfram Research Best Mac OS X Server Solution 1st Quicksilver InfiniBand Software for Mac OS X SilverStorm Technologies (now QLogic ), Small Tree Communications 2nd Elektron 1.0.1 Corriente Networks LLC Best Mac OS X Student Product 1st GraphClick Simon Bovet 2nd iMap 3.1 Peter Schols Special Mention Sonic Birth Antoine Missout
2006[ 6] [ 7] Category Place Product Developed by Best Mac OS X User Experience 1st iSale 3.1 equinux 2nd FotoMagico 1.7Boinx Software Best OS X Graphics 1st modo Luxology 2nd Unity Unity Technologies Best Developer Tool 1st TextMate 1.5Allan Odgaard 2nd F-Script Philippe Mougin Best Scientific Computing Solution 1st EnzymeX 3.1 Mekentosj 2nd FuzzMeasure Pro 2 Christopher Liscio Best Game 1st The Sims 2 Electronic Arts 2nd WingNuts 2 Freeverse Best Mac OS X Student Product 1st Lineform Freeverse 2nd PhotoPresenter Boinx Software Best Widget 1st iClip Lite 2nd WeatherBug Local Weather Best Automator Workflow 1st Build Real Estate Catalog/Ultimate Productivity Action Pack 2nd Lecture Recording Workflow 1.2 University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Trek Glowacki
2007[ 8] Category Place Product Developed by Best Mac OS X Leopard Application 1st Delicious Library 2 (alpha) Delicious Monster 2nd iBank 3.0aIGG Software Best Mac OS X User Experience 1st Coda 1.0Panic Software 2nd Sandvox 1.2 Karelia Software Best Mac OS X Developer Tool 1st CSSEdit 2.5 MacRabbit 2nd rooSwitch 1.1.8 roobasoft Best Mac OS X Dashboard Widget 1st BART Widget Bret Victor 2nd PEMDAS 1.1 Michael Filippone Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution 1st Papers 1.0mekentosj.com 2nd SingleCrystal 1.3 CrystalMaker Software Best Mac OS X Game 1st World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Blizzard Entertainment 2nd Wacky Mini Golf! 1.01DanLabGames Best Mac OS X Student Product 1st Picturesque 1.0 Acquilia 2nd Pathway 1.0 Dennis Lorson
2008[ 9] Category Place Product Developed by Best Leopard Student Product: 1st Squirrel Axel Péju 2nd Flow 1.0.1 Brian Amerige Best Mac OS X Leopard Graphics and Media Application 1st ScreenFlow Vara Software Ltd. 2nd FotoMagico Boinx Software Ltd. Best Mac OS X Leopard User Experience 1st Macnification Orbicule 2nd Checkout Werck BV Best Mac OS X Leopard Game 1st Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Aspyr Media 2nd Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Electronic Arts Best Mac OS X Leopard Application 1st ScreenFlow Vara Software Limited 2nd Bee Docs Timeline 3D Edition Bee Documents Best iPhone Web App 1st Remember the Milk Remember the Milk 2nd AP Mobile News Network The Associated Press Best iPhone Game Winner 1st Enigmo Pangea Software Best iPhone Entertainment Application Winner 1st AOL Radio AOL LLC Best iPhone Social Networking Application Winner 1st Twitterrific The Iconfactory Best iPhone Productivity Application Winner 1st OmniFocus The Omni Group Best iPhone Healthcare & Fitness Application Winner 1st MIM MIMvista Corp.
2009[ 10] Category Product Developed by Mac OS X Leopard Developer Showcase Billings Marketcircle Inc. BoinxTV v1.3Boinx Software Things v1.1Cultured Code Versions v1.0.3 Pico and Sofa Best Mac OS X Student Product Fontcase v1.1.3 Pieter Omvlee iPhone Developer Showcase MLB.com At Bat 2009 v1.0.1 MLB.com Postage v1.0 RogueSheep Topple 2 v1.1ngmoco:) Tweetie v1.3.1atebits LLC Best iPhone Student App Wooden Labyrinth 3D v1.2.1 Elias Pietilä Best iPhone OS 3.0 Beta App AccuTerra v1.0.0 Beta AccuTerra
Letterpress Student Scholarship Design Award Winners [ edit ] Louis Harboe Bryan Keller Puck Meerburg 2014[ 15] Category Product Developed by Mac & iOS Leo's Fortune 1337 and Senri Day One Bloom Built Blek kunabi brother Yahoo! News Digest Yahoo! Threes! Sirvo Cinemagraph Pro Flixel Photos Device 6 Simogo Storehouse-Visual Storytelling Storehouse Media Sky Guide Fifth Star Labs Monument Valley ustwo Studio Student PanoPerfect HalfPeeled LLC and TwoBros Addimal Adventure Teachley
2016[ 17] Category Product Developed by Mac & iOS Complete Anatomy 3D4Medical Streaks Zervaas Enterprises Zova Personal Trainer ZOVA Frame.io - Video Review and Collaboration Frame.io Ulysses The Soulmen GbR Chameleon Run Noodlecake Studios Inc. Lara Croft GO Square Enix Montreal INKS. State of Play Games Auxy Music Creation Auxy djay Pro algoriddim GmbH Student Linum Joaquín Ramírez Vila Dividr Josh Deichmann, Patrick Pistor, and Erik Lydick
2018[ 20] Product Developed by Agenda - Momenta B.V. BANDIMAL YATATOY Calzy Raja Vijayaraman iTranslate Converse iTranslate Triton Sponge Gauss Surgical, Inc. Florence Mountains Inside Playdead Alto's Odyssey Snowman Frost kunabi brother Oddmar Mobge Ltd
2022[ 24] Category Product Developed by Inclusivity Procreate Savage Interactive (Australia) Wylde Flowers Studio Drydock (Australia) Delight and Fun (Not Boring) Habits Andy Works LLC (United States) Overboard! inkle (United Kingdom) Interaction Slopes Breakpoint Studio (United States) A Musical Story Glee-Cheese Studio (France) Social Impact Rebel Girls Rebel Girls Inc. (United States) Gibbon: Beyond the Trees Broken Rules (Austria) Visuals and Graphics Halide Mark II Lux Optics (United States) LEGO Star Wars™: Castaways Gameloft (Canada) Innovation Odio Volst (The Netherlands) MARVEL Future Revolution Netmarble Corp. (South Korea)
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