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Apple Design Award Winners Announced

Posted by pudge on from the next-year-Dashboard-widgets-will-take-most-of-these-awards dept.

Glen Low writes "Apple has just posted the list of Apple Design Award winners for 2004. Big Bang Chess walked away with two awards: Best Product and Best Technology Adoption, and my very own Graphviz port was runner-up in Best New Product and won the Best Open Source Product. And yes, the GUI is all BSD-licensed Cocoa goodness."

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  1. This Year's Candidates by MinutiaeMan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm a little surprised that Big Bang Chess won not one, but two awards. Maybe it's just that this year's crop of candidates aren't as "impressive" as previous years -- I wouldn't compare BBC to, say, OmniWeb (a previous recipient of Best OS X Product Award).

    Of course, I'm not a developer myself, so I can't exactly judge too well, but based on what I do know, it seems to be a strange decision.

  2. Re:Other Graph Layout tools by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm still stunned over my win for Graphviz -- for various reasons that will eventually be made clear -- but in the true spirit of open source, I was allowed to stand on the shoulders of the AT&T giants who created the command-line tools. It feels somewhat unreal, since I was at my work computer clicking on refresh on the ADA page rather than receiving the award(s) at WWDC.

    Graphviz for Mac OS X does have an interactive zoomable interface and exports to SVG (but not imports, which might be difficult since SVG is somewhat generic). It is interconvertable to GXL as well (an XML-based graphics format).

    Cheers,
    Glen Low, Pixelglow Software
    www.pixelglow.com