This 21st-century version of a classic art tool might be Vision Pro’s best app yet

For translating a centuries-old artistic method into a modern app, Da Vinci Eye is a winner of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards.

When Sam Gherman designed Da Vinci Eye for Apple Vision Pro, he didn’t have a clue how the user experience was going to end up. Three days before the Vision Pro launch, he decided to totally redesign the app. “I pretty much scrapped almost everything I had worked on and spent the next 72 hours hacking away at this brand-new idea,” he says. “It was so down-to-the-wire that we didn’t get the update live until about the middle of Vision Pro launch day.” The resulting Da Vinci Eye app is a winner of Fast Company’s 2024 Innovation by Design Awards in the apps and games category.