Apple has announced the winners of the 2022 Apple Design Awards, which recognise the best apps and developers on MacOS, iOS and iPadOS. Winners this year include Lego Star Wars, Halide Mark II and the soundscape app Odio, but here at Creative Bloq, we're particularly pleased to see the digital illustration app Procreate pick up its second Apple Design Award.
Savage Interactive's Procreate has followed up its 2013 award for Outstanding Design and Innovation with the Apple Design Award for Inclusivity at the Cupertino giant's World Wide Developers Conference 2022.
Procreate [is] only the second app to win two titles in the history of the awards, and we think it's well deserved
That makes Procreate only the second app to win two titles in the history of the awards, and we think it's well deserved. We love the iPad as a creative device, especially with the Apple Pencil 2, and Procreate is one of our favourite creative apps for the tablet. Basically Apple + Procreate = win.
Apple commended the digital illustration app for "supporting people from a diversity of backgrounds, abilities, and languages" through its native support for 16 languages and its added accessibility features for people with limited mobility and impaired vision. These include advanced Motion Filtering for artists with tremors, Single Touch gestures for those with limited hand mobility and new Colour Cards and Notifications to help the visually impaired.
Procreate's accessibility features include larger text (Image credit: Procreate)
Procreate's accessibility features include an in-app assistive touch menu, audio feedback, and colour blindness settings as well as VoiceOver, Dynamic Type and more.
On receiving the award, Procreate CEO and co-founder James Cuda said the team at Savage Interactive had put their “hearts, souls and brains into making Procreate more available to more people, consistently adding powerful new features year after year," but that there remained "more work to do.” He encouraged other developers to see improving accessibility as "an intrinsic part of our design and development process."
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Other winners at the 2022 Apple Design Awards include the playful habit tracker (Not Boring) Habits, the gorgeous iPhone and iPad camera app Halide Mark II, the soundscape creator Odio and the games Lego Star Wars: Castaways and MARVEL Future Revolution.
The Apple Design Awards 2022 in full
Inclusivity: Procreate, Wylde Flowers
Delight and Fun: (Not Boring) Habits, Overboard!
Interaction: Slopes, A Musical Story
Social impact: Rebel Girls, Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Visuals and graphics: Halide Mark II, LEGO Star Wars: Castaways
Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. He writes news, features and buying guides and keeps track of the best equipment and software for creatives, from video editing programs to monitors and accessories. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. There he manages a team of designers, photographers and video editors who specialise in producing visual content and design assets for the hospitality sector. He also dances Argentine tango.
