Jakob Nielsen reveals the winners of a competition to identify the 10 best-designed application user interfaces for 2008.
The winners:
- Campaign Monitor by Eyeblaster (Israel): Integrated management of multiple advertising campaigns for media buyers.
- CMSBox by CMSBox (Switzerland): Content management system
- FotoFlexer by Arbor Labs (USA): Photo editor
- PRISMAprepare by Océ (The Netherlands): Print shop software.
- Seating Management by Magellan Network and DesignBox (USA): Hostess-stand reservation book for restaurants.
- SQL diagnostic manager by Idera (USA): Database performance monitoring and diagnostics
- SugarSync by Sharpcast (USA): Synchronizing files across multiple computers.
- SuperSaaS by SuperSaaS (The Netherlands): Creating and hosting scheduling and reservation systems.
- Wufoo by Infinity Box, Inc. (USA): Online forms, surveys, invitations, and payments.
- Xero by Xero (New Zealand): Accounting for small businesses.