2013 Interaction Award Winners

25 winning projects representing excellence in interaction design.

Best Concept & Student

100 BPM

Umea Institute of Design

People's Choice

UX for Good: New Orlea...

UX for Good

Best in Show

21 Balancoires

Daily tous les jours

Future Voice

Studio H: Bertie Count...

Project H

Connecting

Facilitating communication between people and communities.

Obama for America Mo...

thirteen23

thirteen23 was approached to design and develop the mobile strategy for Barack Obama's 2012 bid for re-election. Working with Obama for America, the team crafted an...

Honolulu Answers

Code for America

Government websites have a wealth of information but are often hard for citizens to navigate to find the answer to their specific question. As a citizen, when you visit a...

JK5

Lahti Institute of Design

HOAS Pasila, located in Central Helsinki, provides a home for 250 foreign students. The residents are mostly European exchange students who come to study at one of the hi...

Nike SPARQ

R/GA

Nike's training program-SPARQ Combines-are the proving ground for elite high school football players, an event where the very best attract the interest of college scouts....

Disrupting

Re-imagining completely an existing product or service by creating new behaviors, usages or markets.

Nike+ FuelBand

R/GA

Nike+ was an experiment that revolutionized sport. With its launch seven years ago, we started a journey with Nike that has taken them from a company that manufactures sh...

Hormone check

apt as

Research shows that a great number of cosmetics and body care products contain hormone-altering chemicals that can seriously harm your health. But information is sparse a...

Nova

LUNAR Europe GmbH

Nova is a personal climbing wall that redefines bouldering training at home, making it a celebrated activity through a new take on design expression and a compelling inte...

Empowering

Helping people to do things they otherwise couldn't do.

ZocDoc

ZocDoc's purpose is to empower patients to be more engaged and empowered with their healthcare planning and decision making. ZocDoc is a digital platform that provid...

100 BPM

Umea Institute of Design

100 BPM is a concept that helps to save lives by greatly increasing the success rate of administering compression-only CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) to an adult aft...

Nike+ FuelBand

R/GA

Nike+ was an experiment that revolutionized sport. With its launch seven years ago, we started a journey with Nike that has taken them from a company that manufactures sh...

SONIVIVI

Copenhagen Institute of...

Sonivivi is an interactive mobile application that helps people who are partially blind, or those who have recently lost their eyesight to become more self-sufficient in...

Teemo

Ammunition

Teemo's goal is to bring "fitness fun with friends" to the large, stressed-out and underserved portion of the population who want to exercise, but don...

Engaging

Capturing attention, creating delight and delivering meaning.

21 Balancoires

Daily tous les jours

21 Balancoires (21 Swings) is an urban scale collective instrument, a game where together we achieve better things than separately. The installation consists of a series...

Chrome Web Lab

Google Creative Lab

Web Lab is a groundbreaking, year-long exhibition, featuring a series of interactive Chrome Experiments that bring the extraordinary workings of the internet to life. Vis...

Fiiiit

Fiiiit Inc

Fiiiit helps track, analyze, and share people's activities while taking the stairs. It helps people gain health by doing exercise more, and reduce carbon footprint b...

Gundulas Stories - a...

HTWG Konstanz

Gundulas Stories is an interactive learning environment which enables children to acquire knowledge playfully and improve their sensory and motor skills. The concept comb...

Expressing

Enabling self expression and/or creativity.

Paper by FiftyThree

FiftyThree

Paper is the simplest and most beautiful way to create on the iPad. It allows you to express your ideas as sketches, diagrams, illustrations, notes or drawings and instan...

Iuvo

SUPSI

Iuvo is a kit of stand-alone smart modules, sensors and actuators that perceive their layouts and physical configurations and compile parts of the code. It supports creat...

LEGO LIFE OF GEORGE

LEGO SYSTEM A/S

LEGO Life of George combines creative LEGO building with app games for your smart phone. This unique combination of physical building and digital games is part of an emer...

Optimizing

Making daily activities more efficient.

Practice Fusion iPad a...

Cooper

The Practice Fusion iPad app empowers doctors to review and chart patient medical history while meeting with patients. The application liberates the doctor from the desk-...

10,000ft

Artefact

Today businesses need to make strategic decisions on the fly. Faced with constant need to adjust plans, reshuffle priorities or reassign employees, they need a way to cap...

FreshBooks for iPhone

FreshBooks

FreshBooks for iPhone is FreshBooks' first mobile app built to complement our leading cloud accounting web application. Our goal was to create a quick and easy mobile ver...

MyFord Mobile for Ford...

IDEO

MyFord mobile app is a memorable, market-leading application suitea website and mobile appthat makes gas-free battery electric vehicles (BEV) ownership simpler, easier, a...

Nike+ FuelBand

R/GA

Nike+ was an experiment that revolutionized sport. With its launch seven years ago, we started a journey with Nike that has taken them from a company that manufactures sh...

Rehearsal: an App for...

North Carolina State...

Musicians are unique. They each bring their own perspective to how they create and practice music. Rehearsal is a tablet application that is designed to support the diver...

Overview

Winners of the second-annual Interaction Awards, 25 global projects selected from hundreds of entries from 27 countries, recognized for their excellence in interaction design. These winning projects were selected by an international panel of jurors, evaluated for context, impact, craft and overall presentation.

Jury

Marc Rettig (Chair) -
Steve Baty - IxDA/Meld Studios
Liz Danzico - School of Visual Arts
Matias Duarte - Google
Kate Hartman - OCAD
Dan Hill - Fabrica
Ben Pieratt - Pieratt

Team

Jennifer Bove - Co-founder & Chair
Raphael Grignani - Co-founder & Chair
Emily Sun - Operations
Thomas Stovicek - Events
Moka Pantages - Communications

Blog Posts

2013 Interaction Awards: Winners Announced! by Raphael Grignani
IxDA Announces Adobe Typekit as a Sponsor of 2013 Interaction Design Awards by Raphael Grignani
IxDA Announces GE as a Sponsor of the 2013 Interaction Awards by Raphael Grignani
Evaluating Design in a Time of Transition by Marc Rettig
From Pixels To DNA: The Next Frontier In Interaction Design by Anab Jain