Apple opened nominations for 2007 Apple Design Awards

The nominations are open. Apple's Design Awards recognize technical excellence and outstanding achievement in software design and development for Mac OS X. The awards program is now in it's 12th year with the opening of nominations. They must be in by April 23, 2007.

An Apple Design Award is given for each of seven categories:

Best Mac OS X Leopard Application
Best Mac OS X User Experience
Best Mac OS X Developer Tool
Best Mac OS X Game
Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution
Best Mac OS X Dashboard Widget
Best Student Application

The winner's prize consists of the special inscribed cube shown above and two fully loaded, top-of-the-line, 15-inch Mac Book Pro laptop computers, two Apple 30-inch Cinema Displays, one ADC Premier Membership, a WWDC 2007 ticket, travel and accommodations. The Apple Design Awards will be presented during an evening event at the Worldwide Developers Conference this June.

Developers vying for the first category award have their work cut out for themselves since Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) has not even been released yet! The program's details are available from this Apple Web page. [Bill Fox; image courtesy of Apple, Inc.]