Apple continues to lose designers who worked with Jony Ive, the design guru who revolutionized the company alongside Steve Jobs with a series of successful products including the iPod, iMac, iPhone and Watch.
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This time, it's Bart Andre who is leaving the company after nothing less 32 years. This makes Andre the person at Apple who has held the title of “Senior Industrial Designer” for the longest time — he was there many years before Jobs returned as president in 1997. More recently, Andre has helped lead the design team after Evans Haneke as well as his own. It took time for Jony Ive (who took his hat and left in the summer of 2019) also left Apple last December.
In recent months, we have written a number of cases about people leaving Cupertino companies. It is not unusual for employees to disappear, but in a short time there will be several important employees in addition to Hanky:
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Bloomberg also reports that designers Colin Burns and Shota Aoyagi have left the company, and it's only going to get worse in software design as well: “Several longtime designers on Apple's software design team have also indicated that they plan to leave Apple in the near future.” The newspaper reveals. The Eve team consists of about 24 people for more than ten years.
In addition, Jony Ive brought four designers from Apple to his company LoveFrom in the summer of 2021. Apple stopped collaborating with LoveFrom in August 2022. Some remained, such as Richard Howarth (Vice President of Design), Molly Anderson, and Duncan Kerr. .
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