Apple’s lead {hardware} designer Evans Hankey is leaving

The particular person answerable for the bodily appear and feel for Apple’s iPhones, Macs, and the whole lot else is leaving the corporate, as Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman first reported. Industrial design vice chairman Evans Hankey will solely stay with Apple for an additional six months. Hankey took over {hardware} design three years in the past after longtime chief design officer Jony Ive exited to start out his personal design agency.

No alternative or subsequent step for Hankey has been publicly introduced. However, Bloomberg stories her departure was introduced internally this week and quotes an announcement from an Apple spokesperson saying, “The senior design team has strong leaders with decades of experience. Evans plans to stay on as we work through the transition, and we’d like to thank her for her leadership and contributions.”

Hankey and VP of human interface design Alan Dye have reported on to Apple COO Jeff Williams ever since Ive left. The report cites nameless sources saying Dye will stay with the corporate and noting that Gary Butcher, a former high designer within the human interface division, is returning to the corporate after a stint at Airbnb.