Hanley is described as a “great team leader," which may well be the role the design team missed after the loss of Jobs and the slow withdrawal of his spiritual successor. (I see Cook's decision to delegate by talent as a constructive approach.) “I have the utmost confidence in my designer colleagues at Apple, who remain my closest friends, and I look forward to working with them for many years to come,” said Ive.Īpple’s decisions invoving Ive’s replacements have come under scrutiny, with the usual suspects focused on Apple CEO Tim Cook. The new team leaders will be Evans Hankey, vice president of Industrial Design, and Alan Dye, vice president of Human Interface Design, both of whom will report to Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer. “After nearly 30 years and countless projects, I am most proud of the lasting work we have done to create a design team, process and culture at Apple that is without peer,” Ive said in a statement announcing his departure. Ive’s desire to focus on creativity instead of the mundanities of management was clearly recognized by Apple, which seems to have tried to help its award-winning designer find his mojo once again.ĭesign team meetings took place at Ive’s studio (presumably at his Pacific Heights mansion) in order to reduce his commute.Īpple also permitted Ive to hand day-to-day responsibility to Richard Howarth and Alan Dye while he was ostensibly designing Apple Park and redesigning Apple Retail (and squeezing in time to design diamond rings with chum Marc Newsom).Ī recent Bloomberg report claims he would visit Apple HQ maybe twice a week and had been scaling back his work at Apple since 2015 and the first Apple Watch. “Jony’s an artist with an artist’s temperament, and he’d be the first to tell you artists aren’t supposed to be responsible for this kind of thing,” said Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs. The New Yorker cites Laurence Powell Jobs on this: He once admitted to feeling challenged that his decisions affected the fate of 100,000+ Apple employees. You only need watch one of Ive’s many ‘in a white room’ product announcement videos to get the seriousness with which he regards his role at Apple. (That Ive spent the last few years sending words via video rather than taking time on stage also speaks volumes.) Great artists feel The report also confirmed that there had been times when Ive considered leaving the company – just four years before the New Yorker piece, rumors emerged that he wanted educate his kids in the UK.
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