Apple's Industrial Design Chief Hankey To Leave Three Years After Ive (bloomberg.com) 37
Apple's head of hardware design, Evans Hankey, is leaving the iPhone maker three years after taking the job, creating a significant hole at the top of a company famous for its slick-looking products,
Bloomberg News reported Friday, citing sources. From the report: Hankey was named to the post in 2019 to replace Jony Ive, the company's iconic design chief for two decades. Before taking her current role as vice president of industrial design, Hankey spent several years at Apple reporting to Ive. Since then, she has reported to Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams.
The departure was announced inside the Cupertino, California-based technology giant this week, with Hankey telling colleagues that she will remain at Apple for the next six months. Hankey oversees several dozen industrial designers, and the company hasn't named a replacement. Her pending exit marks the first time that Apple will be without a de facto design chief since co-founder Steve Jobs retook control of the company in the late 1990s and appointed Ive to the job. Richard Howarth, a key designer on both Ive's and Hankey's teams, briefly held the role of head of industrial design, reporting to Ive, between 2015 and 2017.
Bloomberg News reported Friday, citing sources. From the report: Hankey was named to the post in 2019 to replace Jony Ive, the company's iconic design chief for two decades. Before taking her current role as vice president of industrial design, Hankey spent several years at Apple reporting to Ive. Since then, she has reported to Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams.
The departure was announced inside the Cupertino, California-based technology giant this week, with Hankey telling colleagues that she will remain at Apple for the next six months. Hankey oversees several dozen industrial designers, and the company hasn't named a replacement. Her pending exit marks the first time that Apple will be without a de facto design chief since co-founder Steve Jobs retook control of the company in the late 1990s and appointed Ive to the job. Richard Howarth, a key designer on both Ive's and Hankey's teams, briefly held the role of head of industrial design, reporting to Ive, between 2015 and 2017.
HIdey-ho! (Score:5, Funny)
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Best job ever! Get paid 10's of millions to crank out three years of products that look exactly like they did the year before.
And that is "Mrs." Hankey to you!
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Came here to see how long before this comment appeared.
Not disappointed.
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Mr. Hankey is leaving to spend more time... (Score:2)
...as the Christmas Poo.
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Welp. Botched the pronoun. M'kay?
Re: Mr. Hankey is leaving to spend more time... (Score:2)
You're worked up over it?
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You can stop proving me right. We get it already: You're stupid and can't recognize humor even when it's explained to you using small words.
Re: Mr. Hankey is leaving to spend more time... (Score:1)
Sorry, I don't understand why you're making a big deal over this, and resorting to abuse. Not cool.
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I'm so scared. No, really. I'm quivering in my boots. You're so badass, how can I live with myself.
Re: Mr. Hankey is leaving to spend more time... (Score:1)
Dude, go get some help.
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You should, yes.
I am applying (Score:4, Funny)
As a holder of a PhD in Industrial Design from the prestigious Slashdot University, the world's foremost institute of high learning, I am more than qualified. Having been exposed to the opinions of leading experts, I am familiar with all the stupidity of Apple's designs and how they oughta be doing things.
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You're more than qualified to design the next generation of iPhones and iPads, anyway. For the past 10 years, they've all basically been glass rectangles with rounded corners.
In related news, Rick Moranis' next movie... (Score:2)
Jony Ive Shrunk the Phone.
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Jony Ive, alive. No disassemble Jony Ive!
apple's designs haven't changed (Score:3)
Re:apple's designs haven't changed (Score:4, Funny)
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You want the hardware design chief to be working on the UI? Isn't that what caused some of these problems in the first place?
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Apple seems pretty settled on the designs of their products, no major change have happened in the past three years, so I'm not sure what a new head of design would do
Is that your resume applying for the position?
Or maybe some kind of joke about correlation and causation? (Apologies to Dave?)
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It's worse than just the designs not changing... their products haven't changed! Since the AppleWatch there have been zero innovative products out of Apple... just re-hashing the same stuff with a few minor changes. Reliability has gotten (even) worse, service has gotten worse, warranty has become a joke, and there really isn't much on the horizon for them. Services are growing (and improving), but it is just a minor evolution.
It is really time for Tim and Eddy (fscker) to step down and bring in/up some
Why should we care about a jewelry designer ? (Score:1)
Bored? (Score:2)
Probably tired of just making everything a rounded rectangle and removing buttons and ports.
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That's what Microsoft is doing (the rounded rectangle). That shitfest called Windows 11 is taken straigh from Apple's playbook.
Mind you, at the same time they took away functionality and made it more difficult to operate, but it sure does look like MacOS.
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You're not wrong. Just today I spent 15 minutes flailing about with the Windows 11 audio controls trying to figure out how to get it to "listen" to an input and pass it through to the default output. That was brain-dead easy in 7 and 10, but now you have to find your way to the old school audio properties control panel to do it, which is not at all easy.
Fuck Windows 11 and the shitgibbon designers that feel the need to hide everything without making a useable search.
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What a waste. Apple has zero business getting into automotive, and the real world will eventually "reward" them should they choose to do so.
Shhh... ultra secret inference (Score:2)
Sentence capitalization. (Score:2)
Wouldn't it make it much easier to read headlines, if Slahsdot used the modern sentence capitalization instead?:
"Apple's industrial design chief Hankey to leave 3 years after Ive."