Here is the memo Tim Cook sent to the company on Jony Ive's promotion
If you haven't already heard Jony Ive has been promoted in Apple to the newly created position of Chief Design Officer. Here is the memo CEO Tim Cook sent to the company on the appointment.
Image source: Macrumors.
Apple has just announced that Jony Ive has been appointed to the newly created position of Chief Design Officer. The new position will allow him to better fulfill his role of overseeing the design of all of Apple's various projects.
With Jony Ive as Chief Design Officer, day to day running of the various design teams will now be the responsibility of Alan Dye and Richard Howarth (left and right of Ive in the photo above), who have both been elevated to vice president positions.
After the announcement, Tim Cook sent this memo out to the company:
Team,
I have exciting news to share with you today. I am happy to announce that Jony Ive is being promoted to the newly created position of Chief Design Officer at Apple.
Jony is one of the most talented and accomplished designers of his generation, with an astonishing 5000 design and utility patents to his name. His new role is a reflection of the scope of work he has been doing at Apple for some time. Jony’s design responsibilities have expanded from hardware and, more recently, software UI to the look and feel of Apple retail stores, our new campus in Cupertino, product packaging and many other parts of our company.
Design is one of the most important ways we communicate with our customers, and our reputation for world-class design differentiates Apple from every other company in the world. As Chief Design Officer, Jony will remain responsible for all of our design, focusing entirely on current design projects, new ideas and future initiatives. On July 1, he will hand off his day-to-day managerial responsibilities of ID and UI to Richard Howarth, our new vice president of Industrial Design, and Alan Dye, our new vice president of User Interface Design.
Richard, Alan and Jony have been working together as colleagues and friends for many years. Richard has been a member of the Design team for two decades, and in that time he has been a key contributor to the design of each generation of iPhone, Mac, and practically every other Apple product. Alan started at Apple nine years ago on the Marcom team, and helped Jony build the UI team which collaborated with ID, Software Engineering and countless other groups on groundbreaking projects like iOS 7, iOS 8 and Apple Watch.
Please join me in congratulating these three exceptionally talented designers on their new roles at Apple.
Tim
Design plays a very important role for Apple, whether it's products or software, so it is not entirely surprising that Apple is promoting Jony Ive and giving him more freedom to oversee the various projects within the company.
Source: Macrumors
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