Jony Ive promoted to Chief Design Officer at Apple

Jony Ive is now Apple’s Chief Design Officer, a step up from his previous role as Senior Vice President of Design.

An interview with Stephen Fry has revealed that design guru Jony Ive has been promoted to Chief Design Officer at Apple. Joining Ive in his promotion are Richard Howarth and Alan Dye, who are now the heads of Industrial Design (ID) and Human Interface (HI), respectively. From The Telegraph:

Until now, Ive’s job title has been Senior Vice President of Design. But I can reveal that he has just been promoted and is now Apple’s Chief Design Officer. It is therefore an especially exciting time for him.

Inside the fabled design studio (cloths over the long tables hiding the exciting new prototypes from prying eyes like mine) Jony has two people with him. They too have been promoted as part of Ive’s new role.

One is Richard Howarth, English as Vimto. “Richard is going to be our new head of Industrial Design,” says Jony. “And this is Alan Dye, the new head of User Interface.” Dye is a tall, amiable American.

In the interview, Ive says that his new position will free him from administrative and management work, allowing him to travel more and, ostensibly, focus his complete efforts on design. Ive has great faith in Howarth and Dye in their new roles:

Those two are as good as it gets. Richard was lead on the iPhone from the start. He saw it all the way through from prototypes to the first model we released. Alan has a genius for human interface design. So much of the Apple Watch’s operating system came from him.

Ive originally joined Apple in 1992 and was promoted to Senior Vice President and head of the industrial design team after Steve Jobs returned to the company. Since then, he has been responsible for leading the way in the iconic designs seen in all of Apple’s products, including the iPod, iPhone, Mac, and the iPad. It’s quite the legacy, and it will be interesting to see what kinds of designs Ive’s new role will free him up to pursue.

Source : androidcentral

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