2023 Interaction Awards
Meet our 2023 winners!
Starting with a shortlist created by our Community Peer Review Panel, and then narrowed down by our international jury to category finalists and, ultimately, these winners, this year’s Interaction Awards represent a unique snapshot of the state of Interaction Design.
The winners emerged from 68 short-listed projects including first-time appearances from student teams all the way through to enterprise-level projects with global adoption. With projects from Australia, India, China, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the global potential of Interaction Design is apparent.
The domains covered hint at areas of focus from the last two years — empowering users to manage data, make sustainable decisions, increase accessibility, and the role that AI may play across several sectors.
2023 Interaction Awards Winners
Best in Category: Connecting
Jammies: Musical Instruments designed for People Living With Dementia
Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Concept / Student)
Jammies are a set of musical instruments designed to improve the quality of life for people living with mild to moderate Dementia by empowering them to reminisce, improvise and jam along to music that is of personal value to them without assuming any prior musical ability or knowledge.
Best in Category: Disrupting
Connected AEDs and the Future of Emergency Response
NewDealDesign, United States (Production / Professional)
The Avive Connect AED™ sets a new standard for what should be expected of an AED- direct yet approachable experience during treatment, seamless transfer of valuable incident data to 911, EMS, and medical professionals at the right time, and automated remote monitoring to ensure your fleet of devices is ready to save a life.
Best in Category: Empowering
Engaging men for better family health outcomes
Dalberg, India (Production / Professional)
Engaging men in family planning and nutrition programming provides an opportunity to move towards better health and gender outcomes. To meet this goal, we designed two innovative programs in rural Bihar, India, using Human-centered Design (HCD) research, co-creation and prototype testing, grounded in behavioral science approaches.
Best in Category: Engaging
Little Signals
Google LLC, United States (Concept / Professional)
Little Signals, a series of interaction experiments, explores new behaviors for technology in our daily lives. The objects in the series signal for attention with different sensorial cues like a waft of air, a soft shadow, or an ambient sound. Additionally, their simple movements and controls bring them to life and make them responsive to changing surroundings and needs.
Best in Category: Expressing
Mood Board Search — Enabling AI-powered Creative Expression
Nord Projects, United Kingdom (Concept / Professional)
Advances in computer vision and natural language AI continue to unlock new ways to explore the billions of images across our devices, websites, and the public domain. However, it remains difficult to express subjective concepts, such as visual tones (‘vibrant’) or moods (‘eclectic’) to current systems, where visual interpretation is shaped by culture and community and is personal to the individual.
Best in Category: Optimizing
Annalise Enterprise
Annalise-AI Pty Ltd, Australia (Production / Professional)
Medical imaging (radiology) has long been a critical diagnostic tool, playing an ever-growing role in establishing which treatment approach best serves each patient.
The ongoing growth in the sheer number of medical images challenges radiologists and healthcare providers to read more scans during each workday, all while maintaining the accuracy, quality, and completeness of their results. The result? Well-resourced medical systems face significant imaging backlogs. Under-resourced systems with low clinician-to-patient ratios may miss opportunities for early disease detection.
Best Student
DOLL-SITTER
Hunan University, China (Concept / Student)
DOLL-SITTER is a toy set of pop-up smart books and application for sex education for children aged 5–8, using dolls that play the role of body organs and children played as their protectors. Through the interaction of dolls and smart pop-up books, children can learn about sex education, establish life scenes, and discuss with their parents the sex education issues in the “difficult to speak” life.
Best Concept
Little Signals
Google LLC, United States (Concept / Professional)
Little Signals, a series of interaction experiments, explores new behaviors for technology in our daily lives. The objects in the series signal for attention with different sensorial cues like a waft of air, a soft shadow, or an ambient sound. Additionally, their simple movements and controls bring them to life and make them responsive to changing surroundings and needs.
People’s Choice
Carbon Insights: Empowering consumers to make more sustainable decisions
Rabobank, Netherlands (Production / Professional)
Carbon Insights helps people to learn about the CO2 impact of their purchases based on payment data and a personal profile. In addition, we give educational tips on how to lower your carbon footprint. By applying the lean startup method, we were able to accelerate innovation and be the first Dutch bank to make this available within the consumer banking app.
Best in Show
Little Signals
Google LLC, United States (Concept / Professional)
Little Signals, a series of interaction experiments, explores new behaviors for technology in our daily lives. The objects in the series signal for attention with different sensorial cues like a waft of air, a soft shadow, or an ambient sound. Additionally, their simple movements and controls bring them to life and make them responsive to changing surroundings and needs.
Our jury’s comments on selecting Little Signals for this recognition:
‘It’s exceptionally well executed and embodies the essence of interaction design.’
‘Little Signals is also modular enough to be applied to a myriad of use scenarios.’
Congratulations to all of our 2023 honorees. We appreciate the work of our peer reviewers and international jury, who volunteered their time in reviewing submissions and selecting this year’s winners.
The 2024 Interaction Awards will open for submissions in July.
