Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman experiences {that a} key Apple govt is leaving the corporate (no, it’s not Tim Cook dinner). Alan Dye, who leads Apple’s consumer interface design staff, is leaving Apple Park in Cupertino for the Ravenswood Slough in Menlo Park and the headquarters of Meta, the place he’ll lead “a brand new design studio,” mentioned Gurman, and might be “in control of design for {hardware}, software program and AI integration for its interfaces.”
Dye has led Apple’s consumer interface design staff since 2015. He might be changed by Steve Lemay, who “has performed a key function within the design of each main Apple interface since 1999,” Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner mentioned in a press release to Bloomberg. “He has at all times set a very excessive bar for excellence and embodies Apple’s tradition of collaboration and creativity.”
Dye performed a key function in a number of current product rollouts for Apple. He led the efforts for the UI redesign within the model 26 working programs, in addition to with the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, Apple Watch, and iPhone X. He was one in all Jony Ive’s proteges and one of many few designers remaining from that period.
This information follows a number of experiences all through this yr of Meta poaching Apple workers. A number of of Apple’s AI improvement staff have left for Meta, together with Ruoming Pang, who led Apple’s AI mannequin improvement. Bloomberg reported that Pang was supplied a $200 million compensation bundle, most of which is inventory choices.
Earlier this week, Apple introduced that AI chief John Giannandrea was “retiring” and famend AI researcher Amar Subramanya can be taking his place.
