š Another Longtime Industrial Designer Leaves Apple - MacRumors
After Evans Hankey left, Apple eliminated the Product Design Chief role and restructured the product design team under operations chief Jeff Williams. According to Bloomberg, some of the people on the design team are unhappy with being led by an operations person instead of a designer, and cost cutting efforts have also changed the way the design team operates.
There is an apparent imbalance between the ops and design groups at Apple. Iām wary of this trend.