Ive named Chief Design Officer


Stephen Fry has a nice write up on some recent developments at Apple. He spoke with Cook, Ive, and toured the new under construction Apple HQ.

A piece of news out of the article is a restructuring in the design team. Jony Ive has been moved to a new Chief Design Officer position while promoting Richard Howarth as the head of Industrial Design and Alan Dye as head of User Interface. Howarth was lead on the iPhone from the beginning and Alan with iOS 7 redesign and the Apple Watch.

Jony will travel more, he told me. Among other things, he will bring his energies to bear - as he has already since their inception - on the Apple Stores that are proliferating around the world. The company's retail spaces have been one of their most extraordinary successes.