Which apps and games won the Apple Design Award this year?

Every year during the WWDC Developer Conference, Apple releases the annual design award to select the applications that meet Apple's standards and tastes. This year is no exception. This award has been held for 21 years, and it increasingly highlights those original applications with high quality, design sense, and beautiful interface and user experience. Usually, by looking at the list of design award winners, we can know the type of application design that Apple advocates.

An interesting phenomenon this year is that the winning apps are quite "international". Although Apple's headquarters and largest market are in the United States, only one app from an American developer won the design award this year, and it is not a consumer-oriented app, but one designed specifically for the medical industry. This also shows Apple's emphasis on digital healthcare.

Other award-winning developers are from different countries such as the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, Australia, Canada, India, etc. Among them, 5 games showcase high-quality games featuring graphics, music, art and plot charm, and the remaining 5 apps redefine common tools in a more interesting way, including notes, translation and calculator, etc. Unfortunately, Chinese developers' apps are still not eligible for the Apple Design Award.

The Apple Design Award has generous prizes. In addition to a commemorative aluminum cube trophy, there is also a prize package that includes a 5K iMac Pro, a 15" MacBook Pro, a 256GB iPhone X, a 512GB iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil, a 4K Apple TV, an Apple Watch Series 3, and one AirPods.

The winners of the 2018 WWDC Apple Design Awards are as follows:

Agenda

"Agenda" is a minimalist note-taking app on Mac and iOS. It uses a unique timeline mode to organize notes in an orderly manner, so that you can track the past, present and future of a note or task. The app also has exquisite interface design and graphic layout, beautiful navigation design elements, convenient search bar, and supports iCloud synchronization.

Bandimal

A music creation tool specially designed for children. Animals or colors are used to represent different musical elements in the application. You can slide between animals to select instruments, compose melodies, change loop rhythms, and add some unique effects. In the process of completing music creation, interesting animals will dance to the rhythm, which can cultivate children's musical creativity and stimulate their interest in music learning.

Calzy 3

A very powerful calculator software for iPhone, iPad & Apple Watch, supporting frequently used values ​​and storage. The unique storage area function allows you to store multiple values ​​at the same time and reuse them by simply dragging and dropping, saving the trouble of re-entering each time. It also supports adjusting the keyboard layout, supporting iOS drag and drop (iPhone & iPad), 3D Touch, Face ID and other advanced features.

iTranslate Converse

The main feature is that it supports two-way instant voice translation in 38 languages ​​around the world. The translation recognition speed is extremely fast, which greatly facilitates users to communicate with locals in countries where they do not speak the same language. iTranslate Converse is also quite accurate in voice recognition and text conversion, with an accuracy rate of over 95%. However, like most translation software, if the semantics are not understood accurately, the translated meaning will also be inconsistent. This is a subscription app, with a monthly subscription fee of about 30 yuan.

Florence

An interactive storybook-style mobile game, created by the top designer of Monument Valley, it was launched on Valentine's Day 2018, telling the heart-pounding highs and heartbreaking lows of a girl's first love story. The game's plot and content are relatively simple, but it has won the love of many players.

Playdead's INSIDE

Needless to say, INSIDE is an independent masterpiece ported from a PC game. It was released on iOS on December 15, 2017. It is another masterpiece of the Danish studio Playdead after Limbo. It can be said that INSIDE is qualified to represent the highest achievement of independent games in terms of graphics, sound, plot, connotation and spiritual expression. Since its release, it has won numerous awards, including the Best Independent Game at the E3 2016 Awards, the Best Art Director and Best Independent Game Awards at TGA 2016, the Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Effects Awards at GDC, etc.

Alto's Odyssey

The beautiful and fresh "Alto's Adventure" is well known by domestic game enthusiasts. The sequel "Alto's Odyssey" released by the developer Snowman three years later is still full of artistic atmosphere. The sequel abandons the shortcoming of the previous game's too simple gameplay. While retaining the core of horizontal level passing, it adds a variety of gameplay such as riding camels, riding the wind, and balloon rebound mechanism. Your character is a skier, soaring above the windswept sand dunes, crossing the thrilling canyons, and exploring mysterious temples and cities in a fantasy land far away from home.

FROST

Guiding the gorgeous particles to find the great harmony of life is pleasing to the eye and seems to be a simple way to play, but with some simple melodies and the beautiful colors after the fusion of particles, you can easily immerse yourself in it unconsciously. I suggest that you play this game *** at night, *** turn off the lights in a dark place, set the screen brightness of your phone a little higher, and experience it quietly, you will also fall in love with it.

Oddmar

An excellent platform adventure game, the development team of "Leo's Fortune" took 4 years to create. The fully hand-painted horizontal scrolling scene makes it look more like a movie or animated cartoon than a game. Players will follow the Viking warrior Odmar on a journey of redemption and a journey to prove himself. The game has an excellent touch control feel, supports handles, and the soundtrack comes from traditional Swedish folk music.

※ Another award-winning medical application, Triton Sponge, is not available in China. It is mainly used by medical staff to monitor bleeding in the operating room.