2012 Interaction Award Winners

26 winning projects representing excellence in interaction design.

Best Concept

Out of the Box

Vitamins

People's Choice

Interaction Cubes

Fundação Oswaldo Cruz

Best Student

Pas a Pas

Ishac Bertran / CIID

Best in Show

LoopLoop

Stimulant/Sifteo

Connecting

Facilitating communication between people and communities.

Pepsi Refresh Project

HUGE

In 2010, for the first time ever Pepsi repositioned the brand from a Super Bowl advertising icon to a catalyst for ideas to refresh the world. The Pepsi Refresh Project w...

FoodHub: a digital com...

ISITE Design

If you have an interest in local foods and food hubs, you will have heard of FoodHub. It is one of the most sophisticated, well-developed (and still developing) networks...

Plug-In-Play

Rockwell Group

Plug-In-Play is an interactive installation consisting of an architectural scale projection and a series of networked input platforms representing a playful take on the f...

Steps

Art Center College of Design

In the beginning of 2010, Microsoft Research came to our interaction class at Art Center College of Design and proposed a design challenge--"service meets social". Being...

Windows Phone 7.5

Microsoft

Windows Phone is the phone that puts people first, and makes it easier to stay close and connected to the people that matter to you. A person or group that you care about...

Disrupting

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

Ford SmartGauge

Smart Design

SmartGauge is Fordʼs first LCD screen instrument cluster, built into their 2010 hybrid sedans. Our goal was to effectively modify the behavior of the driver to achieve th...

Peel

Peel is TV, just for you. You tell Peel what you like, and Peel suggests programs you'll love to watch. A single tap on your iPhone takes you from looking for shows to wa...

Spotify Box

Umea Institute of Design

The goal of this Project was to explore a different way to use Spotify at home without a computer. As we move towards digital services, we become more dependent to comput...

SWYP: See What You P...

Artefact

SWYP (See What You Print) radically simplifies printing by giving you the ability to see and manipulate, in 1:1 scale, what the finished result will look like before you...

The Waste Land

Touch Press LLP

The Waste Land for iPad is the result of a year long collaboration between the poem's publisher Faber and Faber, and Touch Press a digital publisher specialising in highl...

Empowering

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

ReadyForZero

ReadyForZero is a free, online financial program that helps people get out of debt. It automatically pulls in all their financial data, helps them make a plan, and tracks...

Google Art Project

Possible Worldwide

No longer a privilege for the few, access to 17 of the world's most treasured museums is now available to anyone with an internet connection. Google Art Project welcomes...

I want To Be... Cour...

ToBe Worldwide

The ʻI Want To Beʼ course is a 2 month after-school program for 12-15 year olds, designed to open the minds of children in Ghana to the career opportunities around them....

Out of the Box

Vitamins

Out of the Box is a simple yet effective solution for the increasing number of cell-phone users who have difficulties with learning to use a new smartphone. For older peo...

Teaching Channel

Method, Inc.

The Teaching Channel website creates a much-needed resource for time-strapped teachers in all stages of education and all types of schools, helping them find useful examp...

Engaging

Capturing attention, creating delight and delivering meaning.

Interaction Cubes

Fundação Oswaldo...

Built to incite curiosity and to change people’s concept of a periodic table, Interaction Cubes brings the elements to life. Using images and videos of each element in ex...

HBO GO Mobile Applic...

HUGE

As more and more people were streaming content on their mobile devices HBO approached HUGE to plan and bring to market a suite of applications that would allow users acce...

University of Oregon...

Second Story...

While most university alumni centers are heritage repositories celebrating the past, the Ford Alumni Center equally cultivates the future. As the new front door to the un...

We Remember/ Explore...

Local Projects LLC

We Remember invites visitors to tell their 9/11 stories as part of the permanent collection of the 9/11 Memorial Museum. Visitors to the site enter a sound-proof booth,...

Expressing

Enabling self expression and/or creativity.

LoopLoop

Stimulant/Sifteo

LoopLoop is an interactive music toy for Sifteo cubes. LoopLoop uses hyper- minimal visuals and rich, smile-making sounds to let anyone make music without knowing a thing...

Pas a Pas

Ishac Bertran / CIID

Pas a Pas is an interactive educational tool that enables children to learn and experiment through animation. It is designed to support and integrate in to an existing cu...

The Film Room

R/GA

When Nike Basketball came to us to help them deliver on their mission to help young athletes elevate their performance, our first step was to understand how kids try to i...

Optimizing

Making daily activities more efficient.

Appie

IceMobile Agency

Mobile is intense, intimate and frequent: the ultimate medium to connect with consumers and gain their loyalty. In order to preserve its role as supermarket pioneer and i...

B-Cycle

Crispin, Porter + Bogusky

B-cycle is a next-generation bike-sharing program. It is a zero-hassle, zero-emissions way to get around town. It’s a bike-sharing program that meets the transportation,...

Out of Box Experience...

Frontend.com

280 million people worldwide have diabetes causing 4 million deaths each year. With no cure on the horizon, daily self-management is the only option for sufferers to main...

Xero

Xero is beautifully designed accounting software that lets you manage your small business finances anywhere, anytime. See your cashflow in real-time with online accountin...

Overview

The winners of the first-ever Interaction Awards, recognizing 26 projects from all over the world for their excellence in interaction design. The criteria for evaluating the entries were based on context, impact, craft and overall presentation, and selected by an international panel of Jurors.

  • 300+ submissions
  • 33 Countries
  • 60% Professionals
  • 40% Students

Founding Sponsor

Founding Jury

Robert Fabricant (Chair) - frog design
Massimo Banzi - Arduino
Janna DeVylder - IxDA
Matt Jones - BERG
Younghee Jung - Nokia
Jonas Lowgren - Malmö University
Helen Walters - Doblin/Monitor

Founding Team

Jennifer Bove - Co-founder & Chair
Raphael Grignani - Co-founder & Chair
Emily Sun - Operations
Thomas Stovicek - Design
Angel Andersen - Outreach US
Birgit Geiberger - Outreach EU
Tzu-Wei Powers - Outreach APAC
David Fine - Sponsorship advisor
MJ Broadbent - Finance
Steve Baty - Advisory Board
Marc Rettig - Advisory Board
Mark Breitenberg - Advisory Board

Blog Posts

2012 Interaction Awards: Awards Finalists Announced! by Jennifer Bove
2012 Interaction Awards: Shortlist Announced! by Jennifer Bove
Interaction Awards Profiles Janna DeVylder by Jennifer Bove
Interaction Awards Profiles Massimo Banzi by Jennifer Bove
Interaction Awards Profiles Helen Walters by Jennifer Bove