14 DAY TRIAL // Apple has released its annual list of developers/apps who won the company's Design Awards, including Yahoo!, Evernote, Coda, mosaic.io, and others, as well as the Student Scholarship Showcase.
This year’s Apple Design Awards provided “plenty of inspiring moments, celebrating some of the year’s most well-designed, state of the art, and innovative apps, and the developers behind them,” Apple said.
The winners include World Wildlife Fund with their WWF Together app for iPads; Savage Interactive with Procreate, a drawing tool; Frogmind with their original Badland IP; Yahoo! with their redesigned Weather app; atebits with Letterpress; Vlambeer with Ridiculous Fishing; Atypical games with Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders; Panic Inc. with Coda 2; and the all-too-well known Evernote.
Student winners included: Ryan Orbuch and Michael Hansen with Finish, a streamlined task manager for school; Ishaan Gulrajani, Alex List, and Zain Shah with mosaic.io, “a way to connect two or more iOS devices around a single image, and built the prototype in a weekend.”
The Student Scholarship Showcase recognized applicants who were asked to develop an app to describe their experience and background.
According to the Cupertino giant, “hundreds students stepped up to the challenge with creative, well-written apps that truly impressed us.”
“These scholarship winners represent the strongest submissions we received, and show just how much can be done in only eight days,” says Apple.
The company mentions three students who have hit all the right spots: Louis Harboe, a 17-year-old who attends University of Chicago Laboratory High School; 19-year-old Bryan Keller who attends Marist College in New York where he is studying Computer Science; and Puck Meerburg, a 13-year-old from Delft, Netherlands.
Of Meerburg, Apple says he taught himself how to code in HTML, PHP, and JavaScript at age 6, adding that “He was recognized as ‘Internet Hero’ of 2011 by BNN, a Dutch TV Network, and was a TEDx Amsterdam presenter at age 11.”
The young Meerburg has a portfolio of 10 apps and 200,000 downloads.