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• Good afternoon
• Welcome. We have a great -- great event for you right now, and we just -- we're just so thrilled that you are here. You came back after the state of the union. This is a non-technical session so you can just relax and enjoy as we celebrate some really cool apps.
• These are exciting times of growth and innovation.
• You know, today we are here to celebrate excellence in design and innovation on iOS and OS X.
• Each year finding the best apps becomes more and more challenging.
• There are more developers, more apps, more technologies, more ideas, more innovation every day.
• Before we began, we want to acknowledge you, the developers who've worked so hard to make all of the amazing iOS and OS X apps that people love and that have changed our culture.
• They've changed the way that we work, the way that we play, and the way that we connect. And we just -- we just want to take a moment to thank you for your hard work and anybody else who's watching this event once it gets on video.

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• Tonight's winners were selected by dozens of judges from across Apple using a variety of selection criteria.
• You know, this is my thirteenth year doing the Design Awards and we have changed the way that we judge things, but we still look for many of the same qualities in apps. We look for apps that are attractive and have strong visual design. We look for apps that have intuitive interaction or really great gameplay.

• Each winner today will receive an amazing set of prizes: The 13-inch MacBook Air, an Apple TV, a 27-inch iMac, 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display --
• And winners will also receive a 64-gig iPad Mini, a fourth-generation iPad Wi-Fi with Retina display, a 64-gig unlocked iPhone 5, and a 64-gig iPod Touch. So basically

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• Oh, and don't forget, the winners also receive one of these coveted Cubes.
• And you know, there's so many new people here at the AD -- at WWDC this year, and at the ceremony I bet you didn't knows that these cubes light up when you touch them. They are touch sensitive and the Apple logo glows just like the back of your MacBook Pro screen. So that is very cool.
• So let's get on with our winners. Just quickly, some logistics. If you are chosen as a winner this afternoon, please quickly come up through the house and join us on stage through one of these sets of stairs at the front, and then when we're finished, you're going to exit stage right.
• We've got a lot of winners so we need you to move fast to the stage so we're not sitting here all evening.
• We're going to begin with students. So let's start with Finish by Ryan Orbuch and Michael Hansen.

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• Here you go.
• Thank you.
• Congratulations.
• Congratulations.
• Why don't you come over here.
• Finish is a streamlined task management app for procrastinators built by two high school students from Colorado. It gets in your face when you need it and stays out of your way when you don't to help you focus on completing important tasks. Let's take a look.
• So some screenshots here. So I don't know where the other student is but -- so I guess you did all the work, yeah.
• Michael, he's at home.
• All right. Michael's at home. Well, he's going to benefit from this anyway. You know, this is an app that manages short, medium, long-term tasks. These guys put it together probably 'cause they're not that good with that and they are procrastinators themselves. But we thought this was such a great app by a couple of students. It uses numerous iOS technologies, integrates with Facebook and Twitter so that you can share tasks with other students that are in your class or in your year. It looks great on Retina display, and is totally optimized for iPhone 5. So congratulations. Great work.
• Thank you.
• That's Finish. That's it right over there. Okay.

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• All right. So here's a video that we asked these guys to put together, and they had no idea that they were doing this for us. But these are self-taught iOS developers. They put a prototype for this app together in a weekend, and it creates a mosaic across multiple screens; so you select an image, and then it uses core animation, device motion, and gestures to determine the devices' relative location to each other and which determine which part of the image it draws. So watch this. They're going to add an iPad; now they're going to swipe across the three devices, and it will reposition that image across those three devices. So very, very cool app. Great job. Two students.
• Congratulations.
• Again.
• You can go out that way. Thank you.

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• Congratulations. Right over -- that's all right. Congratulations. Hi. Nice to see you again.
• Of course not.
• Coda is an incredibly innovated all-in-one editor for your web code. This new version has added features and updates to almost every aspect of the product including some really compelling integration with their iPad app Diet Coda.
• You know, who doesn't know the Panic guys, right? And I think that they're going to love adding this to their display of ADAs. But, you know, Coda 1, five years ago or six years ago in 2007, won and ADA, and we at the time thought it was just such an incredible app.

• AirPreview.
• AirPreview, sorry. It allows you to dynamically preview the work that you're doing, the code that you're making, you can preview that on the iPad. And so Coda and Diet Coda together, they complement one another, and they provide an award-winning OS X and iOS web development solution. And so congratulations.

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• Congratulations.
• Congratulations.
• This is a handcrafted game about fishing with weapons, chainsaws, and toasters. Follow Billy on his search for redemption from an uncertain past in this never-ending infinite arcade world.
• Yeah. What you're seeing back here is -- this is an app that deliver -- a game that delivers hours of unique entertainment. It's expertly crafted in the lo-fi retro video game style. I mean, all of the graphics are intentionally done this way. It has engaging physics-based gameplay mixed with humor and a really fun soundtrack that reverses as you go back up to the surface. It embraces Game Center, makes extensive use of Multi-touch, device motion, core audio, and OpenGL ES. It's built for iOS and optimized for iPhone 5. Congratulations.

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• Congratulations. Want the trophy?
• Congratulations. Congratulations. This app explores the lives of endangered species such as tigers, elephants, and polar bears. Built from the ground up with iPad in mind, it features exquisite visual design and inventive interactions.
• This is an incredible app. It was probably one of the coolest apps we've seen on iPad. It's got outstanding attention to detail, beautiful aesthetic, wonderful sound design and musical score. There's some really engaging writing, some rich typography, gorgeous photography, and then the interaction method for -- whereby you move through these different endangered species, and then you drill down into more information about them is fantastic. It's just got this great attention to detail. And we loved their use of Multi-touch, clever gestures, Core Location support, OpenGL ES, and so much more. This is a fantastic app, and it's tailored for and exclusive on iPad. Congratulations.

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• It will turn off eventually.
• There you go. Evernote helps you remember everything and anything that happens in your life. Beyond notes, that lets you save interesting webpages, create to-dos, attach images, PDFs, and more. And it lets you sync between your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and the web.
• The folks at Evernote took this app on the Mac, it's across multiple IOS devices as well, but they took the Mac app recently and they completely rewrote this client. And they gave it a redesigned Retina display optimized modern single-window UI.
• We'll do photos later.
• They also took advantage of more technologies on Mac OS X than a lot of apps I've seen. They integrate with iCloud, Notification Center, Reminders, they've got QuickLook support, Secure Keychain, Disk encryption, Core Location. They support Full-screen for browsing through your notes. They're fully accessible. And they leverage In App purchase. Great list, and there's even more to say.

• Thank you.
• Congratulations.

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• Yeah. This app is an app that totally stands apart. It's got simple, uncluttered, and beautiful visual design; stunning photography; has great layouts and typography; compelling animations as you move through the different cities; and the attention to detail we felt meant that this app stood out in a really saturated category. This is the way to get attention: By doing something that is fantastic like this. It's available in 30 languages and it's optimized for iOS. Congratulations.
• Thank you.
• You guys can head off that way.
• Congrats. Thank you.

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• And that's Letterpress.
• Wait, though. But I just want to ask you something though.
• Yes.
• What's up with the hair this year?
• I was inspired by the color scheme of the conference this year.
• Oh, nice.
• I blend in with the things downstairs in registration.
• Like a chameleon?
• Yeah.
• Okay. Great.
• Okay. Our next winner: Procreate by Sketch Paint Create by Savage Interactive.

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• You guys --
• Some good Aussies I understand. Yeah.
• There you go.
• Artists love this app. It comes packed with 48 brushes with everything from true-to-life pencils and inks to unique digital tools. It's a complete art studio at your fingertips.
• This app is exclusive to iPad and iOS, and it is a powerhouse of IOS technologies using ARC, Grand Central Dispatch, and OpenGL ES extensively. And because of that, it's able to deliver state-of-the-art performance and responsiveness with 64-bit precision. It renders canvasses -- canvas sizes up to 4K x 4K at a smooth 60-frame per second.

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• That's Procreate. We're on to our last winner I see --
• Really?
• -- over here. Yes. It is Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders by Atypical Games.

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• You're first, you get the trophy. Congratulations.
• Congratulations. Congrats. Hi.
• Let's move that way a little bit.
• Participate in dogfights, protect fleets, or attack enemy basis in this amazing World War II air combat game. It includes accurately re-created locations, realistic weather, and interactive cockpits.
• And if you've not played this game, again, like the Badlands, pick up a copy of this either for the Mac or for iOS. It's got impressive graphics and sound design. It's Retina enabled and AirPlay enabled. It looks awesome on the Mac or on iOS. And it's got amazing OpenGL based -- based capabilities and effects that are provided. Specular masks, bump mapping, atmospheric scattering, volumetric clouds. As he's shooting here, you're getting bullet cartridges flying off -- flying out of the guns.

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• Nice.
• But that's not all we wanted to share with you today.
• Because every year there are dozens of students who come to WWDC on a scholarship.
• This year the scholarship process required that applicants submit an app. They had four days or less to work on it. And the app was to tell us about themselves.
• And we were so impressed with some of these apps that we had received, you know, that people had submitted for their scholarship, that we wanted to show some of the best submissions.
• So we created a special version of the Apple Design Award trophy, and we'd like to give away a few of these now. Please join -- oh, yeah. And there's one other thing.
• Well, they not only get the trophy. In addition, these budding developers get each a 64-GB iPod Mini -- iPad Mini.

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• How you doing?
• Congrats you. Are you Louis? We're going to start with you. These three did some pretty impressive work and we'd like to tell you about them now.
• Stand here.
• Let's start with Louis Harboe, in the middle here I believe. Louis is 17 years old and attends the University of Chicago's Laboratory High School.
• Louis began developing on iOS in the seventh grade, and he's already collaborated on several apps in the App Store that have been featured in the "Chicago Sun-Times" and on "Cult of Mac." His WWDC Scholarship App, which you're seeing here on screen scrolling through it, is called "My Adventure book," and it presents a scrolling list of photos and videos that tell the story or provide details about his apps, his education, his experiences, his friends, his family, and etc. You tap on each one of these, they expand and provide more detail. And Louis also interned at Square recently here in San Francisco, and this tab, this little photo right there, tells you that. So pretty amazing stuff for four days of work. Congratulations, Louis.

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• Next, let's look at Bryan Keller's work. Brian's 19 years old, attends Marist College in New York, and is studying computer science.
• So Bryan is really extremely passionate about programming and he's got an app in the App Store today called "Augmentative and Alternative Communication." And he believes that technology should be intuitive and approachable. And the app that you're seeing right here is just named "Bryan Keller." It's not available in the App Store -- none of theirs is -- but it presents a word cloud that could be tapped and zoomed to reveal details about his apps, his family, his life, his school, his sports, and his interests. And we picked it because it had hockey I think is one of the words, right? No. Kidding. We picked up it because we liked it.
• So that's Bryan's app.
• Good job.

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• Tremendous. And finally, Puck Meerburg. Puck is 13 years old. He's from Delft in the Netherlands, and he loves to code, as you will see.
• So pay close attention here, okay. Puck learned HTML, PHP, and JavaScript when he was six, all right; he's been recognized as the Internet Hero of 2011 by the VNN, a Dutch television network; he's presented at TEDx Amsterdam when he was 11; and he's released ten apps on the App Store already that have been downloaded 200,000 times. This guy.

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• Now, one thing I will say, too, is all ADA winners are also going to be wearing special lanyard, so if you see these three guys walking around, please introduce yourself to them, talk to them, learn from them or something, and just help them out. And also there's the other ADA winners as well. Please acknowledge them throughout the week and find out how they did what they did.
• So these are our ADA 2013 winners.
• These are 11 great apps that demonstrate technical, design, and creative excellence.
• Eleven really great apps they set the standards that other apps should reach for.
• And 11 really great apps that people are going to come back to again and again and again. And like we've said in a lot of the sessions today already, we can't wait to see what you are going to do on iOS VII and OS 10 Mavericks. And so we look forward to having your app featured here on stage next year in the ADA as we will be looking for apps that exploit these operating systems.
• Thanks for joining us. We'll see you next year.

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