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Winner of 2012 Best System Experience: Ice Cream Sandwich

Bateluer

Bateluer

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http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=259362

GRAND PRIZE for Best User Experience: Bloomberg Anywhere by Mobients and Bloomberg LP
GOLD for Best System Experience: Ice Cream Sandwich OS by Google Android Team
GOLD for Best Touch Interaction: Mill Touch by The Mill
GOLD for Best Cross-Platform Experience: HBO GO Mobile Apps by HUGE Inc. for client HBO
SILVER for Best Instructional Experience: Tutorial Player for Photoshop by Adobe
SILVER for Best Discovery Experience: Art.sy
SILVER for Best Transactional Experience: Event Page Ticket Interface by SeatGeek
HONORABLE MENTION for Pick a President, Not a Party: by LBi US for client Americans Elect
HONORABLE MENTION for Maryland Transit Administration Interactive Maintenance Kiosk by ScreenPlay InterActive for client Maryland Transit Administration
HONORABLE MENTION for BKIN Wayfinding System by Studio Akko and Formant Studios
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Congrats are in order. 🙂

So, does this put the final nails in the myth of the Android's UI is kludgy? 😛
 
Looks like they only voted on submitted entrants, so who knows what it had to compete against. Possibly could have been the only entrant for that category.

Also, there's someone from Google on the judges panel.

Finally, the only people who're still saying Android's UI is 'kludgy' are just trolls or deranged fanboys.
 
I just hope more people start creating and designing "digitally authentic" UI's. The faux glass and transparency gradients in Windows annoy me to no end. So do the skeumorphic leather stitching and page flipping animations in iOS.

ICS does very well in that regard, along with being just general nice and easy to use.
 
Retarded web site doesn't list what the entrants are. I can claim to be the winner of the "Best Looking Man on Earth" according to XYZ website if I wanted to...especially since I'm the only entrant. 🙂

Basically the results seem worthless without context.
 
akugami said:
Retarded web site doesn't list what the entrants are. I can claim to be the winner of the "Best Looking Man on Earth" according to XYZ website if I wanted to...especially since I'm the only entrant. 🙂

Basically the results seem worthless without context.
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The Judging Process

The 2012 Awards received over 65 submissions, almost three times the number of submissions from the prior year, forcing tough decisions by the judges. Decision-making was done using a combination of points-based ranking by each judge and group consensus for the final Awards. The process was described in detail during the event.

About the User Experience Awards

Now in its second year, the User Experience Awards aim to raise awareness of the value and importance of great UX in creating effective, engaging and useful digital products and services in today's fast-evolving and competitive digital landscape.

The User Experience Awards are the brainchild of Beverly May and are organized by Oxford Technology Ventures LLC, a boutique user experience and product strategy consultancy in New York, with partner support from the major User Experience and usability professional organizations in NYC, including NYC-CHI, the NY Chapter of IXDA and the NY Chapter of the UPA.

The Panelists and Moderator

The 2012 judges and moderator included a representation across the cutting edge of tech and digital media, including panelists from top technology companies, venture capital firms, startups and creative agencies. The 2012 judges included:

Bryan Hamilton, Vice President of User Experience, Razorfish
Christian Crumlish, Director of Product, CloudOn; best-selling UX Author; co-chair of Bay-CHI
Gary Chou, General Manager, Union Square Ventures
Kathy Baxter, Sr. User Experience Researcher & UX Infrastructure Manager, Google; respected UX Author
Nicole Rubin, Senior Consulting Director, Creative Good
Paul Berry, CEO and Founder of RebelMouse and Soho Tech Lab; former CTO, Huffington Post
Peter March, Director of User Experience for VML's New York office; member of steering committee of NY chapter of IxDA
Ronnie Battista, UX Practice Lead at Slalom Consulting; Treasurer/Director of Certification at UPA International; co-creator of Rutgers' University Mini-MS in UX Design
Beverly May, Founder & President of Oxford Technology Ventures LLC and MiniDates.com; President of NYC-CHI (Moderator)

Full biographies of panelists and the moderator are available at userexperienceawards.com/panelists/
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Knew it wouldn't take long for such a post to show up though. 😛 If iOS had won the award, this would be toted around as a God given fact.
 
Bateluer said:
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Knew it wouldn't take long for such a post to show up though. 😛 If iOS had won the award, this would be toted around as a God given fact.
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Forgive me for being blind...where is the list of entrants? Unless you're saying the panelists and judges are the entrants...which is what my first post was pointing out.

And for the record, I haven't been posting much in any threads lately whether they be pro or anti iOS or Android. Completely contrary to your little side comments.
 
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I like ICS, but overall Android is kludgy and ugly, especially if there are only like 7% of ICS users out there.
 
Bateluer said:
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So is basic comprehension apparently.

Knew it wouldn't take long for such a post to show up though. 😛 If iOS had won the award, this would be toted around as a God given fact.
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Probably wouldn't have even been posted. None of the iPhone/iOS users here even bothered to start a thread about iOS 6, so I kind of doubt they'd bother for something like this.
 
When was Android's interface ever kludgy? It uses a pretty tried-and-true interface paradigm. My old PalmPilot had a similar interface...
 
MrX8503 said:
I like ICS, but overall Android is kludgy and ugly, especially if there are only like 7% of ICS users out there.
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The stock UI has always had a consistent look and feel to them. Motoblur, Sense etc may change that, though, I've never owned a android device that didnt come with stock android.
 
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I like ICS, but overall Android is kludgy and ugly, especially if there are only like 7% of ICS users out there.
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I hate iOS. It looks archaec and old. Nothing new and all new modern features are poor copies of features found on Android and WP7. Even the new iOS6 sucks and looks very much the same.
 
podspi said:
When was Android's interface ever kludgy? It uses a pretty tried-and-true interface paradigm. My old PalmPilot had a similar interface...
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Not saying I'm an Android expert but part of the stuff I do for Q&A and testing is to configure various Android devices. The devices MUST NOT be rooted so I have to do everything manually*. Certain things like how the OS assumes a new user will know to hit the Android Menu button to access settings, and how you have no clue which screen might hold said settings is completely unintuitive and clunky.

Just because an interface is "tried and true" and that you're used to it doesn't meat there aren't areas where it just is confusing to a new user. You really have to go through the system as if you were a completely new user. And that's not to say iOS doesn't have those moments but they were far fewer than on Android.

Keeping in mind that I haven't tested ICS yet of course. I'm not so rich that I can run out and buy a device with ICS just to test it out and work hasn't felt the need to upgrade our proprietary solution to ICS. We're still on Gingerbread.

*Does anyone know of a way, short of rooting, which allows someone to quickly "clone" an Android device's settings and install it on another (same hardware) Android device?
 
I wasnt a fan of honeycomb on my tablet and GB on my SGS2 was pretty good, but when I got ICS on my tablet and SGS2 I loved it. Especially on the SGS2, ICS is near perfect on it. Its almost like a new phone for me.
 
zoiks said:
I hate iOS. It looks archaec and old. Nothing new and all new modern features are poor copies of features found on Android and WP7. Even the new iOS6 sucks and looks very much the same.
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That's what happens when you get an established OS with a large user base. Making radical changes is just going to leave a lot of customers confused (remember that 95% of the population aren't tech experts) or angry about the changes. It's the same reason why Samsung changed ICS to look like their older UI. They'd rather have 5% of people complain about it on tech forums than 95% bring it in to stores or carriers and ask questions about why everything changed and can you please turn it back to how it was.
 
i dont see much difference between ics and gingerbread. but then again, i run nemus launcher on both platforms so theres a good chunk of the changes i just mitigate right there. thing is, nemus launcher is TOPS and i love the app lock built into it!
 
wirednuts said:
i dont see much difference between ics and gingerbread. but then again, i run nemus launcher on both platforms so theres a good chunk of the changes i just mitigate right there. thing is, nemus launcher is TOPS and i love the app lock built into it!
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Are you shitting me?
 
wirednuts said:
i dont see much difference between ics and gingerbread. but then again, i run nemus launcher on both platforms so theres a good chunk of the changes i just mitigate right there. thing is, nemus launcher is TOPS and i love the app lock built into it!
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Not sure if serious...
 
vshah said:
i updated my dad's sgs2 from gb to oem touchwiz ics yesterday, there are almost zero changes. contacts, calendar, settings menu, launcher all look almost identical to before.
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Samsung should be burned to the ground, I'm indifferent about the Touchwiz launcher, I don't like it but I don't dislike it. But their contacts app is WTF bad. the stock ICS people (contacts) app is one of the only system apps in ICS I really really like. Samsung's version of system apps are fugly as hell. Only redeeming thing about their contact app is swipe left/right to call/text a contact. Their calendar sucks ass too, so after I installed the unofficial official ICS leak for phone. I promptly started to replace all of Samsung's system apps.

I guess they're not a fan of the Halo ICS theme thing, because I didn't notice a lick of it anywhere.
 
vshah said:
i updated my dad's sgs2 from gb to oem touchwiz ics yesterday, there are almost zero changes. contacts, calendar, settings menu, launcher all look almost identical to before.
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You think its possible that Samsung made their ICS that way so that the average user wouldnt be completely in the dark with the radical difference that ICS is over GB?

Wait a minute, thats impossible. There is no chance that Samsung put a massive manufacturer skin over Android to keep consistency through updates.
 
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