Jony Ive’s famed Apple industrial design team is now almost entirely dissolved
The Apple industrial design group that was led by Jony Ive — one that designed Macs, iPods, iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and more — is now almost entirely dissolved.
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
Duncan Kerr, one of Ive’s few remaining design colleagues at the company, has informed Apple that he’s leaving soon, according to people who asked not to be identified because the move isn’t public. Kerr joined the company in 1999 and was instrumental to developing several generations of the iPhone, iPad and Mac.
With the departure, Ive’s team of about two dozen closely knit employees has been almost entirely dissolved. In the years following Ive’s own exit in 2019, top designers like Jody Akana, Joe Tan, Anthony Ashcroft, Andrea Williams, Jeremy Bataillou, and Eugene Whang left. The outflow continued over the past year, with major players like Bart Andre, Colin Burns, Shota Aoyagi, and Peter Russell-Clarke departing as well.
Evans Hankey, Ive’s successor as Apple’s head of industrial design, left Apple last year. Alan Dye, the company’s chief of interface design, remains in place, but his team has also lost several members in recent months. The last remaining industrial designers from the Ive era are Richard Howarth, Molly Anderson, and Ben Shaffer.
A large portion of the team at Apple has left for LoveFrom, Ive’s new design company.
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MacDailyNews Take: The end of an era, hastened by operations guy Tim Cook laughably putting a team of designers directly under Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams where they obviously (to the non-myopic) do not belong.
Tim’s not a product person, per se. – Steve Jobs
The good news is that the average age of outgoing CEOs across the S&P 1500 is 61.6 and Tim Cook will turn 64 on November 1st. – MacDailyNews, May 7, 2024
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