Evans Hankeythe person who replaced the legendary Jony Ive in 2019 Apple’s chief hardware designer has decided to leave the company After three years. Of course, she will remain in her position on an interim basis for the next six months until the company finds someone to replace her.

Apple has already maneuvered Gary Butcher, who was one of Dye’s lead designers and is currently vice president of design at Airbnb, to return to the Apple-bitten corporation, though it’s not yet clear what position he will hold.

for now There is no information on the reasons for Evans Hankey’s departure. In its statements to Bloomberg, Apple limited itself to reaffirming that its design team “strong leaders with decades of experience” and creates products that are “undoubtedlycompany representatives.

Apple has traditionally been the benchmark for design, although there are many who criticize the lack of freshness in this regard, especially since the death of Steve Jobs. However, it has been given a certain freshness in recent years by MacBook computers and other personal computers equipped with ARM processors.

It’s unclear how much Evans Hankey’s exact contribution to the design of Apple products is, but during his tenure it’s certain that they were redesigned and some subtle evolutions were seen. For example, a company ditched the unpopular butterfly keyboards on MacBooks for more practical ones and introduced major design changes seen on the iMac M1.

Losing Evans Hankey will be important for Apple, but certainly not impossible to replace, especially when we’re talking about one of the biggest corporations in the world, and it has the money left over to hire all the talent it needs if it’s right. important position it is not an easy task considering its demand.

In case anyone is wondering, Alan Dye, who replaced Jony Ive himself in software design and worked with Evans Hankey, will remain in his position.

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