I totally agree with Monument Valley. One of the most beautiful and unique games I've played in a long time, it's also a great example that you don't need to push a lot of pixels if you have good artists.
Good to see Blek on there. One of the most interesting and unique games I've played in a while, and it's absolutely beautifully designed.<p>I haven't seen too many people talking about it on HN even though it's been near the top of the charts in the app store recently: definitely check it out if you have a chance!
Monument Valley and Yahoo News Digest are both really nicely done. Definitely deserving of the award (not that the others aren't, I just haven't used most of them).
I definitely recommend checking out the ADA winners if you're an app developer. It's really good to see what Apple deems award-winning, and can be very inspiring for your own work.
What's most interesting to me about this is that not a single one of these apps is a free-to-play app. Freemium apps have a lot of room to grow on the design front and this could be a serious differentiator for certain apps.
Looking at the winners there doesn't seem to be anything massively inspiring and only one dedicated OSX app.<p>I'm not sure how much of a big deal these awards are.