Apple Design Awards 2006 winners

Today this year's winners of the annual Apple Design Awards were announced. The awards aim "to recognize technical excellence and outstanding achievement on Mac OS X" in eight categories. Here are the winners (uh, spoilers):

• Best Developer Tool: TextMate 1.5.2
• Best Use of OS X Graphics: modo 201
• Best Dashboard Widget: iClip lite 2.0
• Best Automator Workflow: Build Real Estate Catalog/Ultimate Productivity Action Pack 1.0
• Best User Experience: iSale 3.1
• Best Game: The Sims 2, 1.0 Rev E
• Best Scientific Computing Solution: EnzymeX 3.1
• Best Student Product: Lineform 1.1

You can go to the Apple Design Awards 2006 site for more information and the runners-up, which is mysterious absent of links, or you can head over to Phill Ryu's blog where he lists them all with links and some commentary on the award ceremony. Ryu runs Widget Machine and co-developed iClip lite (winner of Best Dashboard Widget above) with Inventive.

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