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

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."

adawinners
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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Top Rated Comments

Eduardo1971 Avatar
167 months ago
Wow, the Yahoo! Weather application foretold the iOS 7 design language. Very weird. I love Yahoo's! new weather application.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Donut4000 Avatar
167 months ago
Love the Yahoo! Weather app but the new icon sucks.

Image (http://www.app121.com/Uploadpic/logo/628677149.jpg) >> Image (http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/097/Purple2/v4/82/d1/f5/82d1f520-7ca6-9a92-f849-2ddb7e047df3/mzl.opkoihhx.175x175-75.jpg)

Funny - I'm glad they changed the icon - I think it's much better. Oh well, one man's meat's another man's poison and all that.:)
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
167 months ago
Coda is the best.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
zed1291 Avatar
167 months ago
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!
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
haruhiko Avatar
167 months ago
Yahoo weather trumps all other weather apps on the App Store. ;)
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
167 months ago
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.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)