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Best of the Year
Best Apps & Widgets of 2026
The apps and widgets that won a GDUSA award in 2026, each with the firm and the designers credited.
4 award-winning projects
An app is used daily by the customer who chose it, so its design is the product. The designer learns what the user does most and builds the navigation around it, then draws every state a screen passes through, because the user notices the one that was skipped. The apps that win do one job without a manual and look clean at thumb distance. Dell's Alienware Command Center put performance tuning and lighting control in one hub a gamer can read, and Irene Kadir's Savey turned near-expiry groceries into a shopping list anyone could follow. The best app designers in the awards are on this page. Open any project to see the screens and learn what makes them work.
Standouts of 2026
2026
Alienware Command Center
Apps & Widgets
Firm
Dell Technologies, Experience Design Group
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2026
Savey: Food Waste App In Grocery Store
Apps & Widgets
Firm
Irene Kadir
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2026
GAF Commercial Contact Us Interactive Map
Apps & Widgets
Firm
GAF Creative Services
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2026
GAF About Us National Plant Map
Apps & Widgets
Firm
GAF Creative Services
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Common questions
- How many apps and widgets won GDUSA awards in 2026?
- The gallery lists 4 winners from 2026 in this category, out of 29 across all years. Each one appears here with its firm and designer credits.
- Which firms won the most GDUSA awards for apps and widgets in 2026?
- GAF Creative Services is the only firm with more than one winner, at 2. The ranking for the year lists every firm with its winning work. Best Apps & Widgets firms of 2026, by award wins.
- Who are the clients on the 2026 apps and widgets?
- The client named most often is Alienware. The credit comes from the firm that entered the work.
- How do I enter next year's awards?
- Entries go through the GDUSA entry platform. A single entry costs $120 as of October 2026, and packages bring the price per piece down to $400 for ten to twenty entries. Winners who publish get a project page here with full credits, and publication is the paid step. How the awards work.