I’d like to see a community-run version…
Monday 26 October 2009 - Filed under Uncategorized
I’d like to see a community-run version of the Apple Design Awards.
Anyone could nominate an app, and the developer community would vote on who wins, in just a few categories.
I’m thinking the categories could be a little more user-centric than Apple’s. For instance, I don’t really care about best adoption of OS X technologies, but something like “best refinement of a common task” or “best default behavior” or “best scriptability” would be interesting, and something that’d be easier to use as a marketing badge…
This is just off the top of my head, so there are probably others. “Least data lock-in”? “Easiest to learn?”, “Best plugin community”?
2009-10-26 » mike
26 October 2009 @ 2:13 pm
[...] the thirst for additional developer recognition, Michael McCracken proposes a community run version of the Apple Design Awards, where developers would themselves determine and dole out rewards for what we respect most among [...]
26 October 2009 @ 6:25 pm
Good idea! Especially for those apps that will never get an ADA (regardless how good they are -> conflict of interest at Apple).
My nominations (not sure about the exact categories yet): Productivity: Mindnode, CSSEdit, Mellel Helper-Apps: Dropbox, fruux, Expandrive Dev Tools: HTTP Client, TextMate, iLocalize, Notification Watcher
30 October 2009 @ 6:29 am
Great idea. Right now, you can only get a semblance of this via the great developers who blog, or when someone runs a dev challenge.