Apple’s lead hardware designer Evans Hankey is leaving
by Richard Lawler from The Verge - All Posts on (#64ZT3)
Nick Barclay / The Verge The person in charge of the physical look and feel for Apple's iPhones, Macs, and everything else is leaving the company, as Bloomberg's Mark Gurman first reported. Industrial design vice president Evans Hankey will only remain with Apple for another six months. Hankey took over hardware design three years ago after longtime chief design officer Jony Ive exited to start his own design firm.
No replacement or next step for Hankey has been publicly announced. However, Bloomberg reports her departure was announced internally this week and quotes a statement 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...