The finalists for UX Design of the Year at the 2024 GeekWire Awards are helping end users across home building, investing, AI-generated speech, data analysis, and schedule and expense tracking for gig workers.
The award is intended to recognize a product that has a user experience that is meaningful, usable and delightful for those end-users. The five finalists are Digs, Copper, Row Zero, WellSaid Labs, and Solo.
Keep scrolling for descriptions of each finalist, provided through the nomination process. And submit your vote here or below for UX Design of the Year, presented by Blink UX.
End user: Residential home builders, vendors, and homeowners.
Describe how the UX benefits an end user: The UX of Digs takes the complicated process of collaboration on a home build and makes it intuitive and simple to use with familiar UX similar to many favorite social media and collaboration platforms. Add in automatic organization and AI-powered search and the user has a powerful yet easy-to-use experience that enhances the build process for everyone involved.
End user: Kids, teens, and parents.
Describe how the UX benefits an end user: Starting from obtaining SEC approval for teens to be able to build an investment portfolio that is focused on driving financial knowledge through investing real money in the stock market, the team has distilled a tremendous amount of complexity into a user experience that has driven over 2.6 million members to start their journey in wealth building. The result is a simple and performant user experience that makes education invisible for teens and their parents and has been successful in driving adoption of a new wave of investors at a massive consumer scale.
End user: Finance, marketing, operations, engineering business professional performing data analysis.
Describe how the UX benefits an end user: Working with big data sets has become common in every job function. Traditionally, business users perform data analysis in spreadsheets. However, when data sets are bigger than Excel or Google Sheets can handle, we are forced to use big data tools that are rigid, costly, or require programming skills. Row Zero works just like common spreadsheets but can support hundred-million-row data sets, enabling any business user to analyze data in a format they already know how to use.
End user: Content creators needing specific control over synthetic speech.
Describe how the UX benefits an end user: WellSaid Labs’ UX allows for unparalleled control of generative modeling for speech synthesis in a simple and intuitive studio interface. Anyone who needs a voice, whether they are content creators, corporate marketing or content teams or even individuals with special needs, can now tell their stories with precise control over pacing, volume, emphasis, and pronunciation.
End users: gig workers
Describe how the UX benefits an end user: The app allows gig workers to manage their entire working process from scheduling to expense tracking to taxes. It is done in a beautifully simple and easy to navigate way.
Last year’s UX Design of the Year winner was CalmWave, whose web-based user interface is focused on delivering what is typically very complicated and messy patient information (i.e. vital signs, electronic medical record data, etc.) in a simple and digestible format.
The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology. Finalists in this category and others were selected based on community nominations, along with input from GeekWire Awards judges. Community voting across all categories will continue until April 12, combined with feedback from judges to determine the winner in each category.
We’ll announce the winners live on stage at Showbox SoDo in Seattle on May 9. There are a limited number of table sponsorships available to attend the event. Learn more and sign up to attend on the GeekWire Awards event site.
If interested in sponsoring a category or purchasing a table sponsorship for the event, contact us at events@geekwire.com.
Special thanks to Astound Business Solutions, the presenting sponsor of the 2024 GeekWire Awards.
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