Hasta La Ideas

All the way from Treviso, Italy, we’re ready to bring you the honorees from this year’s Interaction category. Aaron Siegel, Head of Interaction and Online Experience at Fabrica, led this year’s jury team in search of the most interactive designs in this year’s haul. See what Siegel—along with Electroland Co-Founder Damon Seeley, Directed Play Founder and Visual Strategist at NASA JPL Dan Goods and Founder of City Innovation Group Christine Outram—had to say about this year’s entries:

Professional
Winner: Angelo Semeraro / Davide Cairo – Sadly By Your Side
Runners-up:
» Pentagram / MIT Senseable Lab – Makr Shakr
» Second Story – 100 Years of Design
Notables:
» Tellart & Google Creative Lab – The Binoculars
» Registration & Ticketing Team – The Eventbrite Reserved Seating, Seat Designer
» SonoSite Experience Design Team – SonoSite X-Porte

Student
Winner: Tangible Media Group – inFORM: A Dynamic Shape Display
Runners-up:
» Megan Chiou, Alfredo Sandes, and Kunal Chawla – Tink
» Kathryn McElroy / Joseph Weissgold – Loop: Directional Haptic Feedback Accessory
Notables:
» Joakim Bergbom / Taís Mauk / Júlia Nacsa / Yedan Qian – Angl°
» Sylvain Joly / Emilie Tappolet – IDNA: Spatial Storytelling
» Miha Feus – The Haptic Drive
» Peter Buczkowski – Mogli

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