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Apps & Widgets Design
Award-winning apps and widgets from the GDUSA Design Awards, with the firm and the designers credited on every project.
29 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.
Notable winners
- Alienware Command Centerby Dell Technologies, Experience Design Group for Alienware · 2026
- Savey: Food Waste App In Grocery Storeby Irene Kadir · 2026
- GAF Commercial Contact Us Interactive Mapby GAF Creative Services · 2026
- GAF About Us National Plant Mapby GAF Creative Services · 2026
- Ballotics: News & Election Data Appby Antwon Key · 2025
- MyFTC Mobile Appby Brandon for Farmers Telephone Cooperative · 2025
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 About Us National Plant Map
Apps & Widgets
Firm
GAF Creative Services
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2026
GAF Commercial Contact Us Interactive Map
Apps & Widgets
Firm
GAF Creative Services
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2025
MyFTC Mobile App
Apps & Widgets
Firm
Brandon
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2025
Ballotics: News & Election Data App
Apps & Widgets
Firm
Antwon Key
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2025
The Interactive Reward System for Learning Without Tear’s Digital Teaching Tool
Apps & Widgets
Firm
Learning Without Tears
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2020
Gita Website/mygita.com
Apps & Widgets
Firm
Piaggio Fast Forward
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2020
Travel Your Way Application
Apps & Widgets
Firm
fromAtoB
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2020
Ex-Out Creativity Handbook Mobile App
Apps & Widgets
School
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
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2019
tagAR Augmented Reality Mobile App
Apps & Widgets
Firm
Renée Stevens Design, LLC
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2019
Wonder Travel App
Apps & Widgets
Firm
Shih-Wei Cheng
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2019
Dell Mobile Connect App
Apps & Widgets
Firm
Dell, Experience Design Group
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2019
Foodu Mobile App
Apps & Widgets
Firm
CuriousMindz
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2019
The Official Globetrotters App
Apps & Widgets
Firm
DMI
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2018
Souvinear App Project
Apps & Widgets
Firm
Drexel University, Interactive Digital Media
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2018
No Fun Radio App
Apps & Widgets
Firm
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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2018
Knovel - Web Application for Engineers
Apps & Widgets
Firm
DOOR3
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2018
The Official Dollywood App
Apps & Widgets
Firm
DMI
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2018
The Archer Residences App
Apps & Widgets
Firm
Neoscape, Inc.
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2018
Studio Tone It Up App
Apps & Widgets
Firm
Left Field Labs
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2017
Ad Council Advocate App
Apps & Widgets
Firm
L+R
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2017
Jammcard App
Apps & Widgets
Firm
L+R
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2017
Noughts+Crosses App
Apps & Widgets
School
The Modern College of Design
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2017
Maestro App
Apps & Widgets
School
Shillington School of Graphic Design
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2017
Duck, Dog, and Bear Go To Africa App
Apps & Widgets
Firm
Hausman Design
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2016
Mobile App Community-Based Sickness Tracker
Apps & Widgets
Firm
MetroStar Systems
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2016
PosiCharge ProCore Mobile App UI
Apps & Widgets
Firm
AeroVironment
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2016
Digital Dialogue
Apps & Widgets
Firm
CoStrategix
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Common questions
- How many apps and widgets have won GDUSA awards?
- The gallery holds 29, from 2016 to 2026. Each one is listed here with its firm and designer credits.
- Which firms have won the most GDUSA awards for apps and widgets?
- GAF Creative Services and DMI share the top spot with 2 winning projects each. L+R (2) follows. The full ranking, with each firm's latest winner, is on its own page. Best Apps & Widgets firms, by award wins.
- Which clients are named on award-winning apps and widgets?
- Clients named on this work include Ad Council, Advisors Living / CCM, Alienware, American Advertising Federation, Cincinnati, Dollywood - Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation. The firm that entered the work named the client, so the credit is theirs. Work an in-house team made for its own company does not count as client work.
- How do I enter apps and widgets in the GDUSA awards?
- Entries go through the GDUSA entry platform. Past winners in this category came through the Digital Design Awards and the Health & Wellness Design Awards. 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.