Uh, Wow. (Apple Design Awards)
So the Apple Design Awards were announced today, and the biggest news from it, of course, was Inventive / Widget Machine co-developed iClip lite taking home the award for Best Dashboard Widget. 
But wait, going back a bit, this was the first ADA ceremony I had the opportunity to attend, and the whole thing was a pretty awesome experience. The event was held in a pretty atmospheric room, complete with a fog machine, purple lighting, and thumping music, and the second coolest part (besides accepting the award) was the opening video sequence, which featured all of the entered applications flying past the screen. Really, really cool.
After each of the winners were announced, runners up first, winners second, the winners were demoed by Apple User Experience Evangelist John Geleynse, who did a pretty good job showing off all of the winning apps. (I wouldn’t have wanted to be in his shoes, demoing Scientific Solution winner, EnzymeX! (By the way, the developers of that application have a great article about the infamous ADA “cube” trophy which is a pretty interesting read.)
Accepting the award with John was unreal. That’s about all I can say at this point, I’m still recovering. I really wish UI designer for iClip lite Piotr Gajos and programmer Chris Willis could’ve made it out here to experience it.
So anyway, more photos and more reactions to come soon, for now, a complete list of the winners, listed in chronological order of announcement:
Best Student Application:
Runner-Up: PhotoPresenter by Arizona Software
Winner: LineForm by Tribar Software
Best User Experience:
Runner-Up: Boinx FotoMagico by Boinx Software
Winner: iSale by equinux
Best Widget:
Runner-Up: WeatherBug Widget by WeatherBug
Winner: iClip lite by Inventive and Widget Machine
Best OS X Graphics:
Runner-Up: Unity by Unity
Winner: Modo by Luxology
Best Automator Workflow:
Runner-Up: Lecture Recording Workflow 1.2 by the University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Winner: Build Real Estate Catalog/Ultimate Productivity Action Pack
Best Developer Tool:
Runner-Up: F-Script by F-Script
Winner: TextMate by MacroMates
Best Game:
Runner-Up: Wingnuts 2 by Freeverse
Winner: Sims 2 ported Aspyr
Best Scientific Computing Solution:
Runner-Up: FuzzMeasurePro by Christopher Liscio
Winner: EnzymeX by Mekentosj
Again, more on this tomorrow, but wow, pretty amazing experience!
Comments
Up until this point, there have been 22 responses to “Uh, Wow. (Apple Design Awards)”:
Hey Phill! Congratulations! But I have to nit-pick: it’s MacroMates, not Micromatas
Phill Ryu
Thanks mbisha, fixed also btw. Pretty tired here, it’s 6am EST, gonna pass out now. I think good dreams are in store for tonight. 
Congrats Phill. Well done.
Congratulations all of who won and Phill!
Those are the coolest little boxes I’ve ever seen in my life. lol Congrats to both of you.
Congrads!
Neal Saferstein
Congratulations Phill! Those little awards look awesome. Are they emitting a white light?
awesome
Congrats Phill. Give it a hug for all of us MacTheme’ers.
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Congratulations Phill ^_^
Yay for Allan and TextMate, very well deserved.
Cya, Al.
I too was there…and, um, I knew iClipLite won before it was even announced.
I remember commenting the day it was released that it was “right on time” to beat the ADA submissions “publically released and available” criterion
That said, I cheered *out loud* for you guys. I’m not a big Dashboard/Widget guy, but I’ll be damned if I don’t use iClipLite *everyday*…a well-deserved award if ever there were one
So, if you guys can just go ahead and fix that up asap for the 10.5 dev builds that would be much appreciated
-K
Congratulations. This is awesome.
I love the design of the trophy, it is very very Apple.
Congrats.
I want a cube. 
Congratulations! A thoroughly deserved award for iClip lite.
Phill Ryu
Give the congrats to the people who deserve it more than myself, John Casasanta (creator of iClip), Piotr Gajos (UI designer), and Chris Willis (programmer for iClip lite 2). I accepted the award as the WidgetMachine rep, but they definitely contributed more to it than I did.
Congrats to you Phill. Way to go on your cool looking prize.
On another note, next week I’m going to tape some vidcasts for my site, at the new Apple Store in Manhattan, on the new cool products Apple just released. If anyone is interested in a more in depth look at something in particular, please let me know.
http://macgomez.typepad.com/macgomez/
Take care Phill,
Sebastien Gomez
I’ve gotta agree wholeheartedly with their decisions (except for their Scientific Solutions and Automator workflow categories, which I’ve never tried and am honestly not all that super interested in). There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t use iClip lite, and I love modo and TextMate. Also – you’re a cutie.
Dropping by as a visitor from MyDreamApp.com (user da).
I’m really impressed with your work here and on the DreamApp site.
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Glenn Wolsey
August 09th, 2006 at 6:08amGo Inventive Software! This is the stuff developers live for, awesome stuff John/Piotr!