2nd Annual International UX Awards, May 2012

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USER EXPERIENCE AWARDS 2012

TUESDAY, JUNE 12 2012

SECOND ANNUAL

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Judges

BRYAN HAMILTONVICE PRESIDENT, USER EXPERIENCE, RAZORFISH TWITTER: @bryanfallingCOMPANY: RazorfishLINKED IN: linkedin.com/in/bryanhamilton

CHRISTIAN CRUMLISHDIRECTOR OF PRODUCT, CLOUDONBAY-CHI; BEST-SELLING UX AUTHOR

COMPANY: CloudOnLINKED IN: linkedin.com/in/mediajunkie


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GARY CHOUGENERAL MANAGER, UNION SQUARE VENTURES TWITTER: @garychouCOMPANY: Union Square Ventures

KATHY BAXTERSENIOR UX RESEARCHER & INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER, GOOGLE

COMPANY: GoogleLINKED IN: linkedin.com/pub/kathy-baxter/0/8ba/126


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NICOLE RUBINSENIOR CONSULTING DIRECTOR COMPANY: Creative GoodLINKED IN: linkedin.com/in/nicolesmithrubin

PAUL BERRYCEO & FOUNDER, REBELMOUSE & SOHO TECH LAB

COMPANY: RebelMouseLINKED IN: linkedin.com/in/talacon


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PETER MARCHDIRECTOR OF UX, VML NYSTEERING COMMITTEE, IXDA NYC TWITTER: @PeterMarchLINKED IN: linkedin.com/pub/peter-march/1/902/48b

RONNIE BATTISTAUX PRACTICE LEAD, SLALOM CONSULTINGRUTGERS UNIVERSITY UX PROGRAM DIRECTOR TREASURER, UPA/ UXPA INTERNATIONAL

TWITTER: @RonnieBattistaCOMPANY: Slalom, Rutgers University, UPALINKED IN: linkedin.com/in/ronniebattista


Moderator

BEVERLY MAYFOUNDER, OXFORD TECHNOLOGY VENTURES & MINIDATES.COMPRESIDENT, NYC-CHIORGANIZER, UX AWARDS TWITTER: @OxfordTech @UXAwards LINKED IN: linkedin.com/in/BeverlyMay


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Honorable Mention

BKIN WAYFINDING SYSTEMSTUDIO AKKO & FORMANT STUDIOS RON GOLDIN, STUDIO AKKO

The BKIN (“beacon”) Wayfinding System is a collaboration between a user experience designer and an industrial designer to create a hybrid physical/digital experience in the form of a low-cost, low impact network of information points designed for remote areas such as parks and rural locations with little or no cell reception. At a distance, it serves as an enhanced mile marker, while up close it provides maps, guides, urgent updates, and communication between units for safety.

akko.co/UXAwards12/ bkinwayfinder.com

http://www.studioakko.com/portfolio-items/bkin-wayfinding-system/


Honorable Mention

MARYLAND TRANSIT ADMINIST.INTERACTIVE MAINTENANCE KIOSKSCREENPLAY INTERACTIVE KEN LONYAI & DEBRA BENKLER, SCREENPLAY INTERACTIVE

In a bold move, MTA (Maryland Transit Administration) envisioned how well-crafted interactive kiosks could motivate rail car maintenance mechanics to do their jobs in a more efficient and effective way. They recognized that to sustain user engagement, the units had to be special, so they commissioned ScreenPlay InterActive (SPIA) to build custom software that would transform the ruggedized 46” touch screen units into iPad-like devices.

bit.ly/InsIVa

http://bit.ly/InsIVa


Honorable Mention

PICK A PRESIDENT, NOT A PARTYLBI US - AMERICANS ELECT (CLIENT) KAREN KRANACK, LBI US

By hosting the first-ever online nomination for the presidency, Americans Elect is using our latest technologies to support our oldest values by giving every American an equal say in nominating a president. To get there, we’re doing two key things. First, we’re creating a startup with no brand recognition and zero users and—in the span of less than a year—scaling up to accommodate millions. Second, we’re building out a site with the ability to let voters determine the issues that matter most to them, matching them with candidates who share their views, and ultimately letting them securely nominate a ticket for the president via the Internet.

americanselect.org/ creativeawardshowcase.com/americans-elect/uxawards/

http://www.creativeawardshowcase.com/americans-elect/uxawards/


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SILVER BEST TRANSACTIONAL EXPERIENCE

EVENT PAGE TICKET INTERFACESEATGEEK JACK GROETZINGER & CHRISS VOLL, SEATGEEK

We're submitting our ticket search interface for consideration, as we feel that it is at the core of the SeatGeek user experience. We have created custom interactive maps for major venues across North America that allow us to map individual ticket listings down to the row level, and users can zoom in and pan around the map to explore the venue for the best ticket deals. We use a color-coded system that correlates with our Deal Score value algorithm to help fans tell at a quick glance which tickets are the best value in the stadium, and we have robust filtering and sorting tools that help users pare down a long list of tickets to only those which fit their exact criteria.

seatgeek.comvimeo.com/seatgeek/uxawards2012

http://www.vimeo.com/seatgeek/uxawards2012


SILVER BEST DISCOVERY EXPERIENCE

ART.SYART.SY ROBERT LENNE, ART.SY

It's hard to imagine, but before the record player and the radio, only a tiny fraction of people used to listen to music. Sadly, today the art world isn't much different from the music world 100 years ago, and its biggest players have no interest in that changing. We envision a world where a love for art is as common as a love for music, and where anyone can freely access all art via any Internet-connected device, from web, to mobile and touch.

art.syvimeo.com/43772631

https://vimeo.com/43772631


SILVER BEST INSTRUCTIONAL EXPERIENCE

TUTORIAL PLAYER FOR PHOTOSHOPADOBE RASCHIN FATEMI & PHILIP MCKAY, ADOBE

Tutorial Player is an iPad app that offers an interactive tutorial experience for learning how to use Adobe Photoshop. What is unique about Tutorial Player is that it creates an intelligent connection between a running instance of Photoshop (on the user's desktop or laptop computer) and the tablet. Using this connection, Tutorial Player automatically stays in sync with the user by advancing the tutorial from one step to the next as the user completes the appropriate actions in Photoshop. Also, if the user gets stuck and needs help, Tutorial Player can automatically perform any step (e.g., execute a command, make a selection) in Photoshop. Adobe Tutorial Player is the first step in more advanced instructional content that is adaptive and can offer real-time assistance. To make it easy to author interactive tutorials, we have also created a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop called Tutorial Builder. With Tutorial Builder, users can automatically create step-by-step tutorials by just demonstrating the relevant actions in Photoshop

adobe.com/technology/projects/tutorial-player.html

http://www.adobe.com/technology/projects/tutorial-player.html


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GOLD


GOLD BEST CROSS-PLATFORM EXPERIENCE

HBO GO MOBILE APPSHUGE – HBO (CLIENT) TODD GRIMASON & GRACE SALEM, HUGE

As content streaming began to expand heavily to mobile devices, HBO and Huge partnered to create HBO GO, a suite of applications that would allow users instant access to an extensive library of HBO content from their mobile devices. The Huge-designed HBO GO app harnesses the vibrant content of HBO to deliver a truly unique and seamless digital experience on the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and Android, Roku, Xbox 360 and Kinect.

itunes.apple.com/us/app/hbo-go/id429775439?mt=8 dropbox.com/s/5bykkuce64jqqh6/HBO%20GO%20iPad%20Demo%20WITH%20MUSIC.mov

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5bykkuce64jqqh6/HBO%20GO%20iPad%20Demo%20WITH%20MUSIC.mov


GOLD BEST TOUCH INTERACTION

MILL TOUCHTHE MILL BOWE KING & JEFF STEVENS, THE MILL

Mill Touch is a large format multi-touch experience showcasing over 1000 projects spanning 20 years. Transparency-switchable smart glass housed in a custom frame allows for borderless, full bleed projections. A fluid particle field serves as a celestial backdrop for all content. Users can explore the constellation of projects or use conventional methods of selection. Other unique interfaces include a before and after project lens, a free-floating, dockable search keyboard, and a lenticular video scrubber.

themillny.com/awards/milltouch/ vimeo.com/millchannel/milltouch

http://themillny.com/awards/milltouch/


GOLD BEST SYSTEM EXPERIENCE

ICE CREAM SANDWICHGOOGLE - ANDROID MATIAS DUARTE, GOOGLE ANDROID

Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) is the latest release of Android OS, an open-sourced mobile operating platform. In addition to being shipped on real-world devices, it serves as a showcase that inspires and guides the creation of mobile applications world-wide. It is designed to adapt to many different form factors and device classes with small and large screen sizes. Ice Cream Sandwich achieves its ambitious user experience goals of ease of use and positive emotional engagement through well-thought-out interaction design, consistent and delightful visuals, the highly specialized interface typeface Roboto and well-placed, subtle transitions that reinforce a sense of place within the OS. The ICS user experience was created in a user-centered, iterative design process. Overarching design goals were set collaboratively, inspired by ethnographic observation and behavior analysis of a large number of mobile device users. The user experience was refined and validated through extensive usability testing. Design principles that were recently shared with the public Android design community emerged as part of this process. ICS has received much praise in the press for its ease of use and dramatic user experience improvements in comparison to previous Android releases.

developer.android.com/design/

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9332774/ics_ux_awards.mp4


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GRAND PRIZE


GRAND PRIZE BEST USER EXPERIENCE

BLOOMBERG ANYWHEREMOBIENTS - BLOOMBERG (CLIENT) PARDHA PYLA, BLOOMBERG & YVONNE CARAVIA, MOBIENTS

The overarching goal of the Bloomberg Anywhere redesign was to create an app that could bring the power of the desktop 'terminal' to service subscribers and enable business productivity and decision making, anytime, anywhere.

mobients.com/uxawards

http://mobients.com/uxawards


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