Apple’s head of UI design is leaving for Meta

Alan Dye, who has led Apple’s UI plan squad since 2015, is leaving to articulation Meta arsenic its main plan officer, Bloomberg reports. He’ll articulation Meta connected December 31st, and Meta is opening a plan workplace and giving Dye oversight of plan for “hardware, bundle and AI integration for its interfaces,” according to Bloomberg. Dye volition study to Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth.

Designer Steve Lemay volition regenerate Dye astatine Apple, the institution confirmed to Bloomberg. “Steve Lemay has played a cardinal relation successful the plan of each large Apple interface since 1999,” CEO Tim Cook told Bloomberg successful a statement. “He has ever acceptable an extraordinarily precocious barroom for excellence and embodies Apple’s civilization of collaboration and creativity.” Following the caller status of former COO Jeff Williams, Apple’s plan squad present reports to Tim Cook.

Apple and Meta didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.

Dye’s departure is the latest enactment alteration astatine Apple, and different 1 of many apical designers who person near the company successful the past respective years. Williams officially near Apple in November, and the institution announced earlier this week that AI main John Giannandrea would beryllium stepping down. Bloomberg has besides reported that chips pb Johnny Srouji is evaluating his aboriginal astatine the company.