Apple Design Award Finalists Announced Ahead of WWDC 2024

Tuesday May 28, 2024 11:20 am PDT by Juli Clover

As we prepare for the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple today announced its finalists for the Apple Design Awards. Apple chooses the best apps and games annually, announcing the winners at WWDC.

2024 apple design award
The Apple Design Awards are meant to highlight apps with outstanding design, innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement. Apps have been selected in the following categories: Delight and Fun, Inclusivity, Innovation, Interaction, Social Impact, Visuals and Graphics, and Spatial Computing. The last category is a new addition this year that's focused on Vision Pro apps.

Delight and Fun

Dudel Draw
Bears Gratitude
Rooms
WHAT THE CAR?
NYT Games
Hello Kitty Island Adventure

Inclusivity

Oko
Complete Anatomy 2024
Tiimo
Unpacking
Quadline
Crayola Adventures

Innovation

Copilot Money
SmartGym
Procreate Dreams
Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile
Lost in Play
Wavelength

Interaction

Procreate Dreams
Arc Search
Crouton
Little Nightmares
Rytmos
finity.

Social Impact

How We Feel
Ahead: Emotions Coach
Gentler Streak Fitness Tracker
The Wreck
Cityscapes: Sim Builder
The Bear

Visuals and Graphics

Sunlitt
Meditate
Rooms
Death Stranding Director's Cut
Lies of P
Honkai: Star Rail

Spatial Computing

Sky Guide
NBA
djay
Synth Riders
Blackbox
Loona: Cozy Puzzle Games

One app and one game will be chosen in each category, with Apple to announce winners during the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference. Winners will receive a physical award and hardware to help them continue to create apps and games.

Links to all of the apps that are nominated can be found on Apple's website.

Tags: App Store, Apple Design Awards

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Top Rated Comments

Velin

31 months ago

After the laughable fiasco of Apple's "top 10 albums," does anyone care what Apple votes or nominates for awards?

PS Apple itself says ('https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-music-reveals-top-10-albums-of-all-time-on-100-best-list/') its music "top ten" is "an editorial statement, fully independent of any streaming numbers on Apple Music." In other words, propaganda.

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