Diana Award

The Diana award is named after Diana Patterson, past President of SIGDOC for three terms. The award is given to an organization, institution, or business for their long-term contribution to the field of communication design. Since 2005, Diana awards have been given every other year, during odd-numbered years.

Nominations for the Diana award are considered carefully by the SIGDOC Executive Board (elected and appointed members), and the final recipients are determined in a series of run-off votes. Winners are announced at the SIGDOC conference.

Since 1992, the Diana award has been given to the following organizations:

• 2011: SAP AG, LLC
• 2009: Apple, Inc.
• 2007: Laboratory for Usability Testing and Evaluation at the University of Washington
• 2005: The British Computer Society (BCS)
• 2004: The Society for Technical Communication (STC)
• 2003: IBM Corp.
• 2002: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• 2001: Information Mapping, Inc.
• 2000: MIT Press
• 1999: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 1998: Netscape Communications Corp.
• 1997: Adobe Systems, Inc.
• 1996: Seybold Publications and Seybold Seminars
• 1995: Carnegie Mellon’s Communications Design Center
• 1994: Xerox PARC