Press Release
Sneakpeak Sneaker Tracker by Andre Anthony Magracia Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Digital Product Design
Andre Anthony Magracia recognized for digital product design by the international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, July 15, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Sneakpeak Sneaker Tracker by Andre Anthony Magracia, designed for Andre Magracia, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Digital Product Design category. The award was conferred within the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined 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.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
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 Sneakpeak Sneaker Tracker
Sneakpeak is a mobile application designed to help sneaker enthusiasts track limited sneaker releases. Information about such releases is often scattered across websites, forums and social media. Sneakpeak gathers release details in one place. Personalized alerts, a release calendar and home screen widgets give quick updates on selected models. An interactive countdown room opens before each release and allows live chat between users. The application works on iOS and Android devices and supports modern smartphone screen sizes.
About Andre Anthony Magracia
Andre is a Brooklyn-based product designer with a background in industrial design and over five years of experience working across the tech, gaming, education, and cultural sectors. He leads product at a design agency, guiding digital experiences for clients in industries such as AI, Web3, SaaS, and online learning. His practice spans mobile and web platforms, game design, and digital interfaces. Andre is also the co-founder of Liit Creative, a resource and mentorship platform for early-career designers, and serves as a mentor with nonprofit organizations supporting access to design and technology careers.
Award Record
This recognition makes Andre Anthony Magracia a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Digital Product Design Award
The A' Digital Product Design Award is an international competition recognizing top digital product designs by leading brands, designers and agencies worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to digital product designers, user experience designers, user interface designers and interaction designers from all countries. Entries typically include digital products, apps, e-books, virtual reality experiences, interactive websites and digital games. Awarded digital product designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/digital-product
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/174140
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/174140
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!174140
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/370512
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://tinyurl.com/jbey3z5k
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
- Sneakpeak Sneaker Tracker
- Function
- Sneaker Tracker
- Category
- Digital Product Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software
- Colors
- Black, Dim Gray, Lavender, Dark Slate Gray and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Andre Magracia
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Andre Anthony Magracia
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #174140
Credits
- Image Credits
- Image #1 Product Designer Andre Magracia, 2025. Image #2 Product Designer Dusha Castro, 2025. Image #3 Product Designer Andre Magracia, 2025. Image #4 Product Designer Dusha Castro, 2025.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Sneakpeak is a mobile app that makes exclusive sneaker releases easier for sneakerheads to track. Users can customize the sneakers they want to track through personalized alerts, a calendar view, and home screen widgets for quick updates. The interactive countdown room lets users chat and connect live while waiting for a drop, making the experience feel shared with the sneaker community.
- Inspiration
- After each sneaker drop, I would often scroll through online forums to see the collective disappointment from those who missed out. I also felt disconnected with the uneventful confirmation screen. I wanted to design a platform that better reflects the lively discussions and reactions on social media before and following anticipated releases.
- Research
- User-centered research aimed to understand frustrations around sneaker releases. I used surveys, interviews, and community observation to gather data from sneakerheads. Participants shared common pain points including lack of personalization, bad drop-day experiences, and alternative hacks they do. Insights led to features like tracking customization and the interactive waiting room, improving both individual planning and community connection.
- Challenge
- A key challenge was designing a tool that felt useful to users who want to monitor sneaker releases. The challenge was to include features of community engagement and user customization, so users would continue to use the platform. Ideally, Sneakpeak would be a place where users interact with others while being a database of a sneaker's history, value, and interest.
- Realization and Technology
- User research was the foundation of the design process. Through interviews and journey mapping with sneakerheads, I identified key frustrations including, scattered information across platforms, lack of personalization, and poor drop-day experiences. Using Figma, FigJam, and Notion, I prototyped and tested solutions iteratively.
- Operation and Interaction
- Users interact with Sneakpeak through a personalized dashboard where they track selected sneaker they want to track via the sneaker calendar. The interactive countdown room activates before each drop, enabling live chat and shared anticipation. The app improves the experience by reducing clutter, focusing only on desired drops, and transforming anxious waiting into social engagement within the sneaker community.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in February 2023 in New York and finished in May 2025 in Brooklyn, New York.
- Specifications
- Sneakpeak is a mobile application compatible with iOS and Android platforms. Designed using responsive UI principles, it supports all modern smartphone screen sizes.
- Keywords
- Sneaker, Sneaker release, Mobile, Interactive, App, sneakpeak, Tracking, ShoppingIOS,
