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Apple Design Award Finalists Revealed Ahead of WWDC 2021

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WWDC 2021 kicks off in six days, and ahead of time, Apple has announced the 36 finalists for this year's Apple Design Awards. The awards honor excellence in innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in app and game design.

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The complete list of finalists:

Inclusivity
- 1Password
- A Monster's Expedition
- Alba
- HoloVista
- Me: A Kid's Diary by Tinybop
- Voice Dream Reader

Delight and Fun
- Little Orpheus
- Pok Pok Playroom
- Poolside FM
- RakugakiAR
- South of the Circle
- Wonderbox

Interaction
- Bird Alone
- CARROT Weather
- Craft
- Nova
- Sp!ng
- Wonderbox

Social Impact
- Alba
- Attentat 1942
- Be My Eyes
- Brief
- If Found…
- Klima

Visuals and Graphics
- Beyond a Steel Sky
- Genshin Impact
- Little Orpheus
- Loóna
- Mission to Mars AR
- (Not Boring) Weather

Innovation
- Bird Alone
- Blind Drive
- LoL: Wild Rift
- Museum Alive
- NaadSadhana
- Universe

Apple will announce the winners of this year's Apple Design Awards on Thursday, June 10 at 2 p.m. Pacific Time. The awards show will be streamed via the Apple Developer app and the Apple Developer website.

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Unggoy Murderer said:
Nova by the esteemed Panic definitely deserve such a recognition - the app is absolutely fantastic.
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Really? Since Coda they can't even get JSX syntax right, not even going to bother mentioning other critical issues. Code wipes the floor with it.
 
moabal said:
1Password is the best $36 I spend each year. Well deserved!
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I bought a 6 months subscription when it was on sale, not gonna lie, I haven’t used it since the first day. It seemed too complicated and also I didn’t feel like manually adding all my passwords from the keychain again, which actually does what I need it to so yeah, not sure why I even bought it 😅

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i don’t get the „Inclusivity“ category, what does 1Password and the cute game Alba have in common?
 
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contacos said:
I bought a 6 months subscription when it was on sale, not gonna lie, I haven’t used it since the first day. It seemed too complicated and also I didn’t feel like manually adding all my passwords from the keychain again, which actually does what I need it to so yeah, not sure why I even bought it 😅

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i don’t get the „Inclusivity“ category, what does 1Password and the cute game Alba have in common?
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Setting up any password managers in the beginning is a pain. But once you got it up and running it makes life a lot easier.
 
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moabal said:
Setting up any password managers in the beginning is a pain. But once you got it up and running it makes life a lot easier.
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I did something similar as contacos and hated it once it was up and running. The app always wanted to launch and jump out of what I was doing and I found it terribly distracting and I was always aware that my password was needed. Being able to set chrome as my default browser solved all my issues.
 
nvmls said:
Really? Since Coda they can't even get JSX syntax right, not even going to bother mentioning other critical issues. Code wipes the floor with it.
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Yeah Nova is not quite there yet w/ regards to it's extension library – but I do prefer it over VSCode for certain situations, mainly being a pretty interface for interacting with Unix boxes.

I’m not sure if VSCode is still using electron but I find it a tad sluggish in comparison.

I use both and I’m being very nit-picky here.
 
Okasian said:
Yeah Nova is not quite there yet w/ regards to it's extension library – but I do prefer it over VSCode for certain situations, mainly being a pretty interface for interacting with Unix boxes.

I’m not sure if VSCode is still using electron but I find it a tad sluggish in comparison.

I use both and I’m being very nit-picky here.
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Disclaimer: Don't get me wrong, we want Nova to succeed because it's native and because we like Panic, but we see many critical issues still present from the Coda era which make it DOA to us. The UI is great but that's about it, if you are coding a static website, that's pretty much where it shines, but considering the amount of claimed syntaxes supported "out of the box", for serious web app development is not even close to being there yet sadly. This without adding the cost factor which at the state it currently is, just adds another extra layer of difficulty to adopt it as a daily professional text editor. Hopefully this will change in the future.

Code still uses electron yes, it's the worst thing about it, although ironically, it's among the best maintained electron apps.

The issue we find with many of these native performant apps are the lack of features out of the box. Same story with Sublime, v4 just released, looking great but you need to spend a considerable amount of time setting up linters, formatters, syntax support, terminal, git, etc. In that area code excels, complemented by a stellar community.
 
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Disclaimer: Don't get me wrong, we want Nova to succeed because it's native and because we like Panic, but we see many critical issues still present from the Coda era which make it DOA to us. The UI is great but that's about it, if you are coding a static website, that's pretty much where it shines, but considering the amount of claimed syntaxes supported "out of the box", for serious web app development is not even close to being there yet sadly. This without adding the cost factor which at the state it currently is, just adds another extra layer of difficulty to adopt it as a daily professional text editor. Hopefully this will change in the future.

Code still uses electron yes, it's the worst thing about it, although ironically, it's among the best maintained electron apps.

The issue we find with many of these native performant apps are the lack of features out of the box. Same story with Sublime, v4 just released, looking great but you need to spend a considerable amount of time setting up linters, formatters, syntax support, terminal, git, etc. In that area code excels, complemented by a stellar community.
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I agree. I mainly use Nova for PHP, Jekyll, Perl, Bash, because all I really need is a few terminals and a text editor. I consider it more like Notepad++ combined with WinSCP.

For my actual day-job I use VSCode because it’s a no brainer with TypeScript being a ‘first-class citizen’ + linters, debug configs, E2E, Docker, WSL integration etc

Different use-cases. Nova is a hobbyist tool for me.
 
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Can someone explain the "Inclusivity" category? I'm trying to figure out how a password manager has any relation to games, etc.
 
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