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
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
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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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