Jony Ive’s Apple Industrial Design Group, which designed the Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and more, is now almost completely disbanded.
Mark Garman of Bloomberg News:
Duncan Kerr, one of Ive’s few remaining design colleagues at the company, has informed Apple that he is leaving the company soon, said the people, who requested anonymity because the move is private. Mr. Kerr joined the company in 1999 and helped develop several generations of his iPhone, iPad and Mac.
The departure almost completely disbanded Ive’s close-knit team of about 20 employees. In the years since Ive himself left in 2019, top designers have left the company, including Jodi Acana, Joe Tan, Anthony Ashcroft, Andrea Williams, Jeremy Batailou and Eugene Wang. The exodus continued over the past year, with key players such as Bart Andre, Colin Barnes, Shota Aoyagi, and Peter Russell Clarke also leaving the team.
Evans Hankey, who replaced Mr. Ive as Apple’s head of industrial design, left the company last year. Alan Dye, the company’s head of interface design, remains on board, 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.
Most of Apple’s team left for Ive’s new design company, LoveFrom.
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Mac Daily News opinion: The end of an era was accelerated when head of operations Tim Cook placed a team of designers who clearly (to the less myopic) didn’t belong directly under chief operating officer Jeff Williams.
Tim is not a product person per se. – Steve Jobs
The good news is that the average age of departing CEOs across the S&P 1500 is 61.6 years old, and Tim Cook will turn 64 on November 1st. 🕚 – MacDailyNews, May 7, 2024
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