We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 UX Awards.
We've refined this year's categories to better represent the breadth of great user experience work being done across the Lower Mainland.
Successful marketing depends on creating great user experiences. Your users are your customers and understanding their needs is essential to selling your product. This award recognizes user experiences tied to ecommerce, customer experience, campaigns, contests, and other solutions designed to connect customers to organizations of all sizes and industries.
The future is no longer at a distance—wearables, internet of things, virtual, augmented and mixed reality are already here. These devices are creating a new opportunity for user experience. This new award category allows us to surface the emerging interactions and immersive experiences that our community is creating.
Digital products play an important role in our everyday lives. We depend on them to make our lives easier to manage. Vancouver is brimming with companies whose focus is to create, refine, and hone these product experiences.
Student projects help to remind the rest of us of what’s possible. Up-and-coming practitioners are making huge contributions to innovation in this region’s UX community. This award celebrates the work done in courses, extra-curricular activities, or portfolio projects—provided the solutions were not designed for commercial purposes.
Non-profit organizations fill a unique and important space in the Lower Mainland. Great user experiences are essential to improving the way non-profits work with their partners, communities, and stakeholders. This award recognizes charities and foundations, social campaigns, professional associations, and public sector enterprises. Entrants should demonstrate how they’ve created a user experience that helps a non-profit organization achieve its goals and/or serve its members.
This award allows our community to vote on the best experience. We will allow users to vote on the best experience from among the finalists, across all categories. Voting will open just before the awards gala.
This is the grand-prize category and will be a juried selection from finalists across all categories. The winner represents some of the best in user experience design the Lower Mainland has to offer.
All solutions will be evaluated and scored by the judges on how they satisfy these five criteria.
Is the work delightful to use? How much care appears to be put into creating an experience people will want to use?
How cohesive and refined does the solution feel? How seamless and consistent are users’ interactions with the solution?
Some interactions are complex in nature—how does the experience support clear mastery of the task at hand, while minimizing friction?
What’s new, different, or exciting about this work? How does it stack up to current conventions and patterns we use today?
What results can be attributed to the user experience of the solution? What measurable ways has it impacted business and people?
Sitecore is the global leader in experience management software that enables context marketing and empowers marketers to deliver content in the context of how customers have engaged with their brand, across every channel, in real time.
Samsung's Vancouver R&D center develops enterprise security solutions and provides global tech support for a diverse set of B2B customers.
Collaborating from offices in Vancouver and Toronto, TELUS Digital applies a lean, user validated, mobile-first approach to building innovative digital products for TELUS customers.
At Microsoft our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.
SAP is market leader in enterprise application software. SAP helps you streamline your processes, giving you the ability to use live data to predict customer trends – live and in the moment. Across your entire business. When you run live, you run simple with SAP.
Finger Food is a world-class technology company that designs and develops immersive Mobile, MR/AR/VR, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud and Entertainment products. We work with iOS, Android, Microsoft HoloLens, Tango, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Unity, and Unreal Engine.
As the world's leading cloud-based practice management solution, we're helping our customers grow their legal practices —with ease. Clio lets lawyers run their law firm from any device, anywhere.
Level up your digital skills! Join BrainStation in Yaletown for part-time courses and weekend workshops in design, business & technology.
Apply is a Digital Product Studio that partners with the world’s greatest companies to create software-enabled products and services that provide utility to end users. Our solutions are built out of data analysis, market insights, user-centered design, and best-in-class engineering.
Blueprint UX is a team of senior UX consultants offering services in user experience strategy, research, design, testing and mentorship. We help our clients understand their customers, simplify complex business problems, and make digital products and services easier for everyone to use.
Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. We help our customers create, deliver and optimize content and applications.
BDC is the only bank dedicated exclusively to entrepreneurs. They are committed to providing technology entrepreneurs with a smooth financing journey at any stage of their life cycle.
ModernAdvisor is one of Canada’s leading online financial advisors. The company uses smart technology to bring Canadians intelligent investing at a fraction of the cost of a traditional advisor.
Niiu Digital Inc. is a user experience design company specializing in product strategy, user research and design.
Number 41 is a a user experience and service design firm committed to innovating through our work. We’re proud to deliver customer experiences that have a real and positive impact.
POWERSHiFTER is a digital agency that produces higher performing digital products, services and conversions on any device.
Saul Good Gift Co. helps companies build relationships meaningfully with the finest local artisan gift baskets. Radiating Happiness Since TwentyOSix.
Unbounce empowers marketers to quickly build, publish & A/B test with the world’s fastest and most customizable landing page builder.
Invoke partners with the big thinkers behind startups and established brands to create new revenue and digital service opportunities. For us, every day is a chance to solve problems in new ways and unearth big-impact ideas.
Make is a digital creative agency. We specialize in creating compelling digital experiences for 16-35 year olds.
Foodee is a corporate meal delivery service. We make it easy for companies to order from top local restaurants for meetings and work events.
Canada’s premier entertainment arts institution, Vancouver Film School offers intensive one-year programs focused on film, TV, games and digital media.