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Apple Announces 2013 Design Awards, Winning Apps Include 'Letterpress' and 'Evernote'

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Apple has announced the winners of its annual Apple Design Awards at WWDC, highlighting an array of apps from utilities to games on both iOS and the Mac. Apple's Design Awards were created to recognize apps that "raise the bar in design, technology, and innovation."

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iPhone and iPad
- Yahoo! Weather
- Badland
- Letterpress
- Ridiculous Fishing
- SkyGamblers: Storm Raiders (Also Available on Mac)
- Evernote (Also Available on Mac)

iPad Only
- WWF Together
- Procreate

Mac Only
- Coda 2

This year's awards also include two apps from student developers. Finish is a streamlined task manager designed to help users organize to-dos into tasks, while mosaic.io allows users to display a photo mosaic across two or more iOS devices.

Student Winners
- Finish
- mosaic.io

Finally, Apple highlighted three other student created apps which student scholarship applicants designed to describe their experience and background for a chance to win tickets to WWDC. Winners included Louis Harboe, Bryan Keller, and Puck Meerbug.

2012 winners of the Apple Design Awards included Jetpack Joyride, Paper, and Sketch.

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Good to see Yahoo Weather on the list. It's amazing - almost to a point of suspicion - how many similarities it shares with iOS 7.
 
Procreate is terrific. One of the many answers to the question "What can't Android do as well as iOS"?

I think Yahoo won more than an award... their weather app (in some form) looks to be bundled soon. (Which makes some sense, since Yahoo has always supplied the data.)
 
nagromme said:
their weather app (in some form) looks to be bundled soon. (Which makes some sense, since Yahoo has always supplied the data.)
Click to expand...

Yep. There's nothing suspicious going on as some other comments have implied.
 
I see - I made the fatal mistake of assuming the judges cared about OS X apps when I submitted Battery Status to the student competition.

Oh well, congratulations to those that won. I'll be back next year... Maybe... I actually don't think I have any apps that can be sold on the App Store in the pipeline right now...
 
Way to go Procreate ..!

It's such an astonishing app that I still can't believe, even after several weeks of using it, how amazing it is to draw with.
If these guys ever got 'round to deciding to go for a desktop version, expanded its remit, managed to get the extra talent they'd probably need to help 'em move on to the 'bigger' platform - well, it'd wipe the floor with a lot of the competition.
So pleased for them.
 
Of course they gave an award to Yahoo Weather. They basically stole the app outright for iOS 7.

With Yahoo's permission, of course.
 
Congratulations to all the developers! I wonder how many man hours it took to develop any one of those applications? (or the price tag)
 
How does Mailbox not win an award? Most innovative email client and productivity app in a long time IMHO. Maybe because it influence users to use gmail over icloud for email?
 
Evernote is one of the worst apps I have on my iPhone. The only reason it hasn't been deleted is copy paste doesn't work good in the app and it's too much work to get the previously entered notes in another app. But it looks awful!
 
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