The winners of the second annual Interaction Awards were announced on December 6, 2012 and will be honored at the Interaction Awards Ceremony, held during IxDA’s annual conference, on January 29, 2013.
A list of 75 short-listed entrants from 17 countries was reviewed and a group of 25 standouts — recognized for their excellence in interaction design — were chosen as the 2013 winners. Top winners will be announced at the event and in the class of: Best in Category, Best Concept, Best Student, Best in Show and People’s Choice Award.
The 2013 Interaction Awards winners are:
Optimizing
Making daily activities more efficient
- 10,000ft, Artefact
- FreshBooks for iPhone, FreshBooks
- MyFord Mobile for Ford Motor Company, IDEO
- Nike+ FuelBand, R/GA
- Practice Fusion iPad application, Cooper
- Rehearsal: an App for Practicing Musicians, Kirsten Southwell/North Carolina State University
Engaging
Capturing attention, creating delight and delivering meaning
- 21 Balançoires, Daily tous les jours
- Chrome Web Lab, Google Creative Lab
- Fiiiit, Ke Zhao/Beijing Sport University
- Gundulas Stories – an interactive learning environment, Fabian Gampp/HTWG Konstanz
Empowering
Enabling people to go beyond their limits
- 100 BPM, Maxime Dubreucq + Doris Feurstein + Shivanjali Tomar + Natalie Vanns / Umeå Institute of Design
- Nike SPARQ, R/GA
- Nike+ FuelBand, R/GA
- Sonivivi, Daim Yoon/Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
- Teemo, Ammunition
- ZocDoc, ZocDoc
Expressing
Encouraging self-expression and/or creativity
- Iuvo, Matteo Loglio/SUPSI
- Lego Life Of George, Lego System
- Paper by FiftyThree, FiftyThree
Connecting
Facilitating communication between people and communities
- Honolulu Answers, Code for America
- JK5, Ilari Laitinen + Enni Koistinen / Lahti Institute of Design
- Obama for America Mobile Campaign, thirteen23
Disrupting
Re-imagining, completely, an existing product or service by creating new behaviors, usages or markets
