Akhil Patel Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Hero AI Daily Assistant in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design

The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Akhil Patel for mobile technologies, applications and software design

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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Hero AI Daily Assistant by Akhil Patel, designed for Hero (MagicX Inc.), has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

About the Bronze A' Design Award

The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.

Regarding Hero AI Daily Assistant

Hero is a mobile application designed as a daily assistant for iPhone users. Hero combines calendars, reminders, notes, news, groceries, weather and an AI assistant in one unified view. Coordination is simplified because availability, reminders and notes can be shared with family and friends, and comments can be added directly to each item. A voice interface updates the screen while the user speaks, which supports faster multi-step actions such as scheduling. The layout is modular and tab free, with compact overlays that keep the application simple as features grow.

About Akhil Patel

Akhil is currently the Founding Designer/Head of Design of an AI pioneer startup, Hero - building the world's first daily assistant. He's responsible for everything design and brand in the company. Here's an article talking about his work: https://edm.com/gear-tech/inside-hero-innovative-ai-productivity-app-the-chainsmokers Akhil is also a member of AIVA (Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts) and a jury member for W3 Awards, Communicator Awards, and Davey Awards. He's won numerous national/international design awards as well. Akhil has led design for Microsoft Shopping on Bing and other Microsoft surfaces with over 100 Million users.

Award Record

With this recognition, Akhil Patel is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

About the A' Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design Award

The A' Mobile Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good design in mobile industry by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to mobile designers, application developers, software engineers and user interface designers from all countries. Typical entries include smartphones, tablets, wearables, mobile applications, mobile games and mobile software. The awarded mobile designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/mobile

About A' Design Award & Competition

Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

Press Resources

Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/163728
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/163728
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!163728
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/174550
Further Information from the Laureate: https://tryhero.app

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Hero AI Daily Assistant
Function: AI Daily Assistant
Category: Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Software and Electronics & Appliances
Colors: Rebecca Purple, Dark Slate Gray, Slate Blue, Gainsboro and Dark Slate Blue
Images: 5
Client: Hero (MagicX Inc.)

The Recognition

Laureate: Akhil Patel
Country: United States of America
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2024 - 2025
Design ID: #163728

Credits

Image Credits: MagicX Inc.

Design Details

Unique Properties: Hero’s design offers unique functionalities: Seamless Integration: Everything is connected—weather, reminders, calendar, grocery ordering via Instacart, and GPT for notes—all in one place for effortless sync. Fast Voice UX: Hero’s proprietary voice UX enables 10X faster multi-step actions like scheduling, guiding you for speed and accuracy beyond traditional chat. Built for Collaboration: Share and comment on tasks with family and friends, reducing coordination time from the start.
Inspiration: Every day, we juggle priorities across apps and people. The average person spreads their life across more than 30 apps per week. Since these apps don’t work together, things frequently slip through the cracks or get forgotten. To coordinate with others, people primarily text, which easily gets buried (and forgotten). And when our hands are full, we turn to voice assistants, which are only useful for simple requests that don’t require a UI. Hero, the world’s first Daily Assistant, makes life easier in 3 ways- Unified Life View: Hero combines calendars, reminders, notes, groceries, weather, and GPT for a seamless overview.
Research: 1. Beta testing with 150+ users. 2. One-on-one feedback sessions with 100+ users. 3. Conversion rate analysis 4. Prototype testing 5. A/B testing
Challenge: The hardest design challenge in building Hero is maintaining simplicity. Most productivity tools start with one or two niche functions but get clunky over time. With Hero, our goal is to continuously simplify and optimize as we add new features so the overall complexity doesn’t increase over time. Another challenge is powering the entire app and its functions with voice actions and let users do more by doing less.
Realization and Technology: Design: Figma Animation: Rive, SwiftUI Video & Sound: After Effects Development: SwiftUI, UI Kit (iOS only) Voice: OpenAI Generative Imagery: Gemini LLM: OpenAI, BERT Web: Framer
Operation and Interaction: Hero is defining an entirely new category with 3 unique attributes: 1. All-in-one: Hero seamlessly integrates every piece of your life: calendars, reminders, notes, weather, grocery ordering, and GPT. 2. Multi-player: Share and comment on anything with family and friends. Just say “remind (name)” to instantly send reminders. 3. Voice-powered: Use natural language for everything: create events, reminders, notes, order groceries, and inquire about news and local events. No app matches this.
Project Duration and Location: The project started in Jan 2023 and was launched publicly in Aug 2024. Continuous development and work is ongoing on this app.
Specifications: iOS responsive design (smallest screen support: iPhone SE, biggest screen support: iPhone 16Pro Max) for all the available iPhone users using iOS 16.4 or later.
Keywords: Mobile, App, VoiceUI, SuperApp, Assistant, AI