Apple, the world-known multinational technology company, has revealed League of Legends: Wild Rift as a winner of the 2021 Apple Design Award under the Innovative category. The Apple Design Award is an annual event with the purpose to recognize the best and most innovative Macintosh and iOS software and hardware produced by independent developers, as well as the best and most creative uses of Apple’s products.
Unlike last year, the company incorporated the announcement of this year’s Apple Design Award winners into its virtual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) online event instead of waiting until the event had finished.
“This year’s Apple Design Award winners have redefined what we’ve come to expect from a great app experience, and we congratulate them on a well-deserved win,”
Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations
Ahead of the WWDC, Apple previewed the finalists whose apps and games showcased a combination of technical achievement, design, and ingenuity. This evening, Apple announced the winners across six new award categories which include League of Legends: Wild Rift.
The 2021 Innovative Apple Design Award Finalists
If you thought that LoL: Wild Rift has made it easy, well, here’s the list of all the finalists of the Award’s Innovative category. It includes other well-known applications like Genshin Impact, and other applications that featured brilliance, vision, style, determination, and hard work.
- 1Password
- A Monster’s Expedition
- Alba
- HoloVista
- Me: A Kid’s Diary by Tinybop
- Voice Dream Reader
- Little Orpheus
- Pok Pok Playroom
- Poolsuite FM
- RakugakiAR
- South of the Circle
- Wonderbox
- Bird Alone
- CARROR Weather
- Craft
- Nova
- Sp!ng
- Attentat 1942
- Be My Eyes
- Brief
- If Found …
- Klima
- Beyond a Steel Sky
- Genshin Impact
- Loóna
- Mission to Mars AR
- (Not Boring) Weather
- Blind Drive
- LoL: Wild Rift
- Museum Alive
- NaadSadhana
- Universe
More about the 2021 Innovative Apple Design Award
Alongside LoL: Wild Rift, an application called NaadSadhana, an all-in-one, studio-quality music app that helps musicians of all genres and any expertise perform and publish their music won the Innovation category as well. In each category, Apple selected one app and one game as the winner. For Wild Rift, Apple stated,
League of Legends: Wild Rift takes a complex PC game and delivers its full experience on mobile. The team at Riot Games has reimagined this beloved title from the ground up, giving players total immersion in the League of Legends universe through polished touchscreen controls that have been designed specifically for mobile, an auto-targeting system to help newcomers find their footing, mobile-exclusive camera settings, and much more.
To sum it up, Wild Rift won for taking a complex PC classic and delivering a full mobile experience that includes touchscreen controls, an auto-targeting system for newcomers and a mobile-exclusive camera setting.
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