2017 Apple Design Award Winners Announced: Severed, Things 3, Mushroom 11, Enlight and More

[MacRumors]

Each year, Apple chooses a selection of exceptional apps and games that are given the company's coveted Apple Design Award to honor design and innovation.

The 2017 design winners include popular titles like Severed, Enlight, Things 3, and Old Man's Journey.

Games:

- Mushroom 11 [Direct Link]
- Splitter Critters [Direct Link]
- Old Man's Journey [Direct Link]
- Severed [Direct Link]
- Blackbox [Direct Link]

Apps:

- Kitchen Stories [Direct Link]
- Airmail 3 [Direct Link]
- Lake [Direct Link]
- Things 3 [Direct Link]
- Elk Currency Converter [Direct Link]
- Enlight [Direct Link]
- Bear [Direct Link]

For more details on the games that were announced as Apple Design Award winners, including reviews, check out our sister site TouchArcade.

2016 Apple Design Award winners included Lara Croft Go, Frame.io, Chameleon Run, Auxy Music Creation, Streaks, Complete Anatomy, INKS, Zova, Ulysses Mobile, and djay Pro.

Article Link: 2017 Apple Design Award Winners Announced: Severed, Things 3, Mushroom 11, Enlight and More

 

[MalcolmJID]

Very glad to see Things 3 on there. An amazingly beautiful app that works so well.

 

[LordQ]

Congrats to the developers! I still think Procreate for iPad is the best-looking app ever.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Congrats to Things 3.

 

[philipmv]

Things 3 is a beautiful app and deserving of the award. But it's also the most likely win "Vaporware of the Year" award if they take another 4 years to make a significant upgrade like last time.

 

[WJRush2000]

Congratulations to Blackbox! It's a really creative game with an amazing design to match!

 

[CarlJ]

I'm surprised that Apple is citing a third-party email client (Airmail), and that Enlight is winning an award now - it's a nice app and I have used it a bunch in the past (nowadays I find I can do most of what I want with the tools in Photos, and I go out to Pixelmator [and now/soon, Affinity Photo] for more advanced tweaks). Its interface hasn't changed much in the past year or two, so why now? I'm not complaining so much as curious.

 

[GIZBUG]

How quickly Darksky has fallen far, far off this list....

The hype train wore off

 

[oneMadRssn]

Not one macOS app?

 

[ikir]

Bear rocks

@oneMadRssn
Bear

 

[iDento]

Things 3, always in my dock since version 1.

 

[Polyphonie]

Things and Bear Notes are both well made and well supported apps that deserve the accolades.

 

[ck2875]

All deserving of the awards.

Here's the Apple site explaining why they picked each one and background on the dev teams:

https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/

 

[FloatingBones]

Not one macOS app?

Not one -- three. Airmail, Things, and Bear run on iOS and macOS.

 

[Gorms]

How quickly Darksky has fallen far, far off this list....

Dark sky is always, always, featured on my personal award lists that I have in my head. Love that app.