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Molly Steenson
Oct 19, 2017
The 2018 Interaction Awards Shortlist
After several weeks of intense reviewing by our talented and hardworking peer reviewers, we’re excited to announce the shortlist for the 2018 Interaction Awards! Everyone who submitted projects contributed to the incredibly diverse body of work featured in our shortlist. Even if you didn’t make it this year, we value tremendously the work you put into your submissions. Our awards and our industry don’t exist without your ambition and dedication to the work we all do.
In our shortlist, you’ll see student concepts alongside professional work from around the world. Domains covered by our shortlist members include education, political discourse, health, creative arts, government, branding & marketing, social science, and music, to name a few. And most importantly, the audience that these projects aim to help and empower range from the young to old, from the social to the introverted, from the comfortable to those who need comforting.
We couldn’t be prouder to show off the incredible design talent setting their sights to take on the world’s problems. Without further delay, here is our shortlist for the 2018 Interaction Awards!
CONNECTING:
Facilitating communication between people and communities
- ALEYE: Connect with your heart
- BioDesign Studio
- Encuro Blocks
- Every person counts: designing for the invisible 1.5 billion
- HeyMama – Reframing and Transforming Social Interactions for Moms
- Lorapot, cultivating relationships
- Met Police Digital Services
- Moot – Make Democracy Great Again
- Polaris
- SXT: Reducing the spread of STIs
- SNASK
- Telia – The birth of a new gen telco
DISRUPTING:
Capturing attention, creating delight and delivering meaning
- Anchor – Your local information network for when disaster strikes
- Anticipation of installments
- Dell Canvas Experience
- emBreath
- Met Police Digital Services
- Migrating to the New FreshBooks
- MUSY (music easy) – Brings simplicity back to music
- Philips Azurion
- Powerchair Football Argentina – VR Power Trainer
- Project Sheeperd
- Sugarcane Diabetes Assistant – Simple And Smart Insulin Dosing
- Super Heroic
- Virtual Reality Versus Phobias
EMPOWERING:
Enabling people to go beyond their limits
- Brimly
- Chabla mobile interpretation service breaks down the barriers between the deaf and the hearing
- Dash
- Journey PRO
- Just Go
- Moot – Make Democracy Great Again
- Objectifier
- Powerchair Football Argentina – VR Power Trainer
- Tactopus- Interactive Tactile Learning for Children with Visual Impairment
- Virtual Reality Versus Phobias
- weDiscover — improved patient journeys through empowered care teams
- Wonder-LAND
ENGAGING:
Encouraging self expression and/or creativity
- _ghostKit
- Feel the Game
- Google – Through The Dark
- Loree
- Philips Hue Instore app
- River of Grass Immersive Experience
- Samsung – Can’t Stop
- Shark Sense VR experience
- SWAY – Mindfulness in Motion
- The Internet Phone
- USAFacts
- Wonder-LAND
EXPRESSING:
Re-imagining completely an existing product or service by creating new behaviors, usages or markets
- CoSpaces Edu
- Dell Canvas Experience
- Future Voices: Future Fridays
- Momentum
- Movba – Your personal dance tutor
- PEEK & BOOK – Transforming the outside into an imaginary playground
- RealityWorks – Aiding communication between designer, modeller and engineer
- ShapeTex
- Storyboard VR
- Super Heroic
- Superbleeper
OPTIMIZING:
Making daily activities more efficient
