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List of 2024 Apple Design Awards Winners, Are You Wearing Any?

The 2024 Apple Design Awards

List of 2024 Apple Design Awards Winners, Are You Wearing Any?

Morrissey Technology – Before the start of the WWDC event, the winners of the Apple Design Awards are always announced. Who are the winners this year, do you think you have used any? The 2024 Apple Design Awards had 14 applications and games judged to be the best in terms of design, technical achievements and innovation. Interestingly, this year’s winners come from various countries.

“It’s inspiring to see how developers use our technology to create amazing apps and games that contribute to making a positive impact on users’ lives,” said Susan Prescott, Apple’s Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations.

“This year’s winners have demonstrated that apps can create extraordinary, meaningful experiences, and we’re thrilled to celebrate their hard work and creativity at this year’s WWDC.”

The 2024 Apple Design Awards named one application and one game for each of seven categories, namely fun and excitement, inclusivity, innovation, interaction, social impact, visuals and graphics, as well as a new category, namely spatial computing. The winners were selected from 42 finalists.

Fun and Excitement

The winners in this category deliver unforgettable, engaging and satisfying experiences enhanced by Apple technology FOR4D.

Bears Gratitude made by Isuru Wanasinghe (Australia)

This journaling app provides an easy way to build a daily habit of gratitude. The well-designed characters in this application help create a warm and friendly impression to support users in building a sense of happiness, day after day.

NYT Games made by The New York Times Company (USA)

With various game titles presented, New York Times Games FOR4D has redesigned its navigation and expanded its game catalog. New game titles like Connections are specifically designed to be played as often as possible, with elegant design and ease of use ultimately providing an experience that encourages everyone to join in the fun.

Inclusivity

Winners in this category provide valuable experiences for everyone by supporting people with different backgrounds, abilities and languages.

oko made by AYES (Belgium)

By alerting pedestrians about traffic light conditions through haptic and audio feedback, oko is an application that has an immediate impact on people who are visually impaired. This application provides a very useful solution in crucial security situations by utilizing Apple technologies such as VoiceOver and Dynamic Typing.

Crayola Adventures made by Red Games Co. (US)

A colorful adventure game that offers a variety of creative options for all players, Crayola FOR4D Adventures brings to life a selection of characters spanning a variety of skin tones, abilities, body types, pronouns, and a complete game narrative. Players of all ages can enjoy a gaming experience that offers a variety of activities, including making decorations, solving puzzles, and reading storybooks.

Innovation

Winners in this category deliver cutting-edge experiences through the use of new Apple technology that makes them stand out in their genre.

Procreate Dreams made by Procreate (Australia)

Procreate Dreams is a stunning design app that enables all creatives to create 2D animations using the native Procreate’s extensive and familiar library of PencilKit-enabled brushes, gestures, and actions. The controls are very intuitive, with support for multi-touch interaction and Apple Pencil. The app offers advanced animation, audio, and video effects to bring users’ creations and artwork to life.

Lost in Play by Happy Juice Games (Israel)

Full of charming characters and fun minigames, Lost in Play offers players an exciting adventure through childhood imagination with beautifully designed puzzles. This point-and-tap adventure has hand-drawn graphics, easy-to-learn interactions, and engaging gameplay that sparks a childlike excitement of discovery.

Interaction

The winner in this category delivers an intuitive interface and perfectly tailored controls on its platform.

Croutons made by Devin Davies (New Zealand)

Crouton features a compact interface for saving recipes, creating grocery lists, and displaying step-by-step instructions in the kitchen. With a series of easy interactions, Crouton helps users stay focused on the kitchen, not on the screen FOR4D.

Rytmos made by Floppy Club (Denmark)

Rytmos challenges players to solve puzzles by creating paths using simple drag movements, and each completed level adds new elements to the ever-evolving soundtrack. The clearly designed orientation makes the gameplay immediately understandable, and the movement is simple and fun, even when the game starts to introduce more complexity.

Social Impact

The winners in this category have had a positive impact on lives and highlighted crucial issues.

Gentler Streak Fitness Tracker made by Gentler Stories (Slovenia)

Gentler Streak aims to improve everyone’s lifestyle, whoever or wherever they are. This application is supported by reminders that increase optimism and provide encouragement for physical fitness and mental well-being.

The Wreck by The Pixel Hunt (France)

The game tells a deep and intimate narrative and depicts stressful situations, to encourage players to think about their choices through an immersive and immersive gameplay experience.

Visuals and Graphics

Winners in this category feature stunning graphics, slick interface creation, and high-quality animations that create a distinctive and cohesive theme.

Rooms by Things, Inc. (United States of America)

Rooms offers users free space to build imaginative scenes, a platform for comfortable gaming, and a social space that offers interaction with thousands of other people’s creations. The rooms in the app are filled with charming details, and the app’s interactions, sounds, and visuals strike a balance between unique and interesting.

Lies of P made by NEOWIZ (South Korea)

Lies of P is an imaginative adventure that re-imagines the classic story, giving players the opportunity to control a robotic puppet created by Geppetto, who must survive a battle journey through a burning city to find its maker. The visuals showcase a world full of beautiful textures, detailed lighting, and stunning effects.

Spatial Computing

Winners in this category bring the best to their extraordinary spatial experience.

djay pro – DJ App & AI Mixer made by algoriddim GmbH (Germany)

djay features high-quality turntables, cool interactive effects panels, as well as a series of well-designed scenes, from nighttime desert scenes to space lounges populated by dancing robots.

Blackbox made by Shapes and Stories (United States)

Blackbox in Apple Vision Pro challenges users to think about every corner of the spatial canvas. Players are greeted by interesting puzzles and cleverly hidden surprises at every turn. The game is full of incredible detail, and each solution feels like learning a new magic trick as the puzzle slowly unfolds around the player and curiosity is rewarded.

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