Apple simply misplaced a prime design expertise.
Meta has employed Alan Dye, who was the top of Apple’s human interface design group. The corporate is filling his place with Stephen Lemay, who CEO Tim Cook dinner told Bloomberg “has performed a key position within the design of each main Apple interface since 1999.”
Earlier than being poached by Meta to turn into its chief design officer, Dye had labored at Apple since 2006, the place he oversaw initiatives together with Liquid Glass and Imaginative and prescient Professional. By the top of his tenure, Dye reported on to Cook dinner.
His departure is the most recent in a sport of musical chairs for prime design roles at Apple. The tech large’s former longtime chief design officer, Jony Ive, left the company in 2019, and his alternative, Evans Hankey, left in 2022. (Hankey wasn’t changed.) On the org chart, the remaining members of Apple’s industrial design team reported to its chief working officer, Jeff Williams, till his personal departure earlier this 12 months. Sabih Khan is Apple’s present COO.
Bloomberg stories that Dye might be creating a brand new design studio at Meta, the place he’ll oversee the design for {hardware}, software program, and AI integration for the corporate’s interfaces. Dye’s hiring is claimed to be proof that Meta is critical about designing {hardware} that may compete within the ongoing race to construct the primary nice AI gadget. It should put him in direct competitors along with his former colleague Ive, whose firm Io Merchandise was bought by OpenAI in May for $6.4 billion with the purpose of constructing the following nice person interface.
