Apple today announced the winners of its annual Apple Design Award competition at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, CA.
The Design Awards are given in seven different categories. This years winners as listed on Apple’s site are:
Best New Mac OS X Product:
Winner: Toon Boom Studio 1.1, The Toon Boom An animation tool for traditional animators that includes 2D drawing, 3D scene painting, panting to film, and sound synching.
Most Innovative Mac OS X Product:
Winner: Watson 1.5, Karelia Software, LLC An innovative tool for viewing Internet-based information, with an auto-updating feature.
Best Mac OS X User Experience:
Winner: OmniGraffle 2.0, Omni Development Inc. An innovative, flexible diagramming and charting tool.
Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption:
Winner: OmniGraffle 2.0, Omni Development Inc. An innovative, flexible diagramming and charting tool.
Best Mac OS X Open Source Port:
Winner: TeXShop 1.19, Richard Koch, Mathematics Department, University of Oregon The ultimate tool for formatting scientific and technical documents.
Best Mac OS X Student Product:
Winner: MacJournal 2.1, Dan Schimpf A tool for keeping and organizing logs, diaries, journals, notes, and ideas.
The complete list that includes the runners up in each category can be found on Apple’s Web site.