Jony Ive's successor at Apple to leave the company after three years in the role

The director of industrial design at Apple, who most recently oversaw the creation of the iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac computers, is departing the organization. A spokeswoman for Apple commented, "Apple's design team gathers expert creatives from around the world and across many disciplines to imagine things that are distinctly Apple." "The senior design team is led by competent, seasoned professionals. We would want to thank Evans for her leadership and contributions and she plans to stay on while we work through the changeover. The decision to leave, which was first reported by Bloomberg, comes at a time when many of Apple's best-known products are mainly getting minor design updates while long-rumored products like a mixed reality headset — a wearable device that's said to be capable of both virtual and augmented reality — have yet to launch.\ After Ive left to launch his own design business, LoveFrom, Hankey took over. (Apple claimed it would hire him when he left, but the two are known to have ceased working together earlier this year.) I directly collaborated with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on a spectacular series of products, from candy-colored iMacs to the iPod and the first iPhone, that helped turn around Apple's fortunes and ultimately elevated the business to the position of being the most valuable in the world. As a result of his work, he received a knighthood, design honors, and the respect of famous people like Bono from U2. Hankey and Dye provided Wallpaper, a design and lifestyle newspaper, with a rare inside glimpse at how Apple's design team approaches new products in December 2021. Hankey went into detail on the techniques used by Apple to improve the "tap" and notifications on the Apple watch, as well as how it scanned thousands of ears to create the ideal AirPods design.   In the early days of design at Apple, "so much of what we value for the team and for the company, truly started," Hankey said. "We cannot express enough how fortunate we are to work for a business with such a strong and solid base. This is what still motivates us, from the very first 'think different' credo to Steve and Jony's shared attention on workmanship, care, and crafting tools to their love for the creative process.