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Jony Ive officially moves to Chief Design Officer as Dye & Howarth are promoted to VPs

After announcing the change in a company-wide memo last month, Apple today has officially updated Jony Ive’s executive bio on Apple.com to reflect his new role as Chief Design Officer. Ive was promoted from Senior Vice President of Design earlier this year. Ive’s bio notes that he reports directly to Tim Cook and is responsible for all design at Apple, including retail, Apple Campus 2, software, and hardware.

Apple this evening has also added executive bios for Alan Dye, the new Vice President of User Interface Design, and Richard Howarth, the new Vice President of Industrial Design. The bios for both Howarth and Dye note that they also report to CEO Tim Cook. The memo shared earlier this year implied that Howarth and Dye would report to Ive, but that must have changed at some point between now and then.

Howarth will focus on hardware and has been part of the iPhone team since the device launched in 2007. Dye will focus on software on both desktop and mobile devices and played a major role in the iOS 7 redesign as well as the design of watchOS.

Ive’s new executive bio reads as follows:

Jonathan Ive is Apple’s Chief Design Officer, reporting to CEO Tim Cook. Jony is responsible for all design at Apple, including the look and feel of Apple hardware, user interface, packaging, major architectural projects such as Apple Campus 2 and Apple’s retail stores, as well as new ideas and future initiatives.
Dye’s role is described as follows:
Alan Dye is Apple’s vice president of User Interface Design, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.

Alan joined Apple in 2006 as creative director with the Marketing Communications team, following previous design lead roles at Kate Spade and Ogilvy & Mather.

Before joining the User Interface team, Alan led global design efforts across all aspects of communications, from identity and packaging, through retail and interactive experiences.

And below is Howarth’s role:
Richard Howarth is Apple’s vice president of Industrial Design, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.

Richard joined Apple in 1996 and has been involved in the design of nearly every Apple product since the original iMac. He’s led the design of each generation of iPhone and most recently, Apple Watch. As head of the Industrial Design group, Richard leads a multinational team of extraordinarily talented designers, CAD sculptors and model makers responsible for creating and imagining the future of Apple products.

Apple’s executive design shakeup was revealed earlier this year and centers around Jony Ive wanting to take on a smaller role and spend more time with his family and in his home country of England. Ive will still be in charge of the design teams overall, but the day-to-day management will be handed by Dye and Howarth.

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Comments

  1. PhilBoogie - 9 years ago

    Without knowing much about the internal hierarchy within Apple, actually anything inside Apple, I still like to make a statement: “Well deserved promotions, all three of you”.

  2. Dan (@danmdan) - 9 years ago

    I do wish you guys would use his proper title of Sir Jonathan Ive.

  3. Jony Ive - 9 years ago

    I’ve officially accepted the title of “Chief Design Officer,” which means your design criticism means nothing to me.

    Not that it ever did…

  4. garethbill - 9 years ago

    Go on Mr Johnny , give us a nice smile . Why the sad face :( ? It’s not that bad .. Go on try a smile..

  5. irelandjnr - 9 years ago

    Looking at the bios I noticed Ahrendts again. She’s the best hire Apple has ever snagged IMO. Only discovered just now via Goog she’s one year older than Cook. If Cook is ever taken ill I’m confident she could do an even better job than him. At least as good for certain. But she has more charisma than Cook though. And not Obama fake political charisma, but sincere charisma. I think she’s amazing (I’m a man, btw)

  6. Thomas - 9 years ago

    É dimagrito

  7. Anila Doll - 8 years ago

    Nice Post & Thanks For Sharing…

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