Apple has recently announced that renowned Molly Anderson will be coming in as the new head of industrial design but Evans Hankey or Jony Ive are yet to be replaced.
The industrial design team of Apple has recently been reshuffled and going by insider information, the company is really struggling to cope with the changes.
The team has been implementing the leadership changes since 2019, after the exit of the earlier design chief, Jony Ive and the problems noted have only emerged thereon.
Apple now has many people on the design team that directly work with Molly Anderson a talented woman promoted earlier in the year to the industrial design manager as it was highlighted by Bloomberg.
Walt Disney Co.’s Mark Gurman, in his newsletter, stated, “Recently, Apple stirred things up, to some extent Nonetheless, while the firm has as yet not appointed a direct successor to Hankey while Williams remains the head of design at Apple, a veteran of Apple, Molly Anderson was promoted to industrial design leader Whereas the majority of IDers formerly reported to Williams, now they report to Anderson.
He said that Anderson cannot be treated as a company vice president, unlike Evans Hankey, who took over the post of Jony Ive and Richard Howarth, the oldest designer in Apple.
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Leadership Struggles
Hankey was the person who succeeded Ive and like him also left the Apple in 2022, soon after this many other talented designers of the company also departed. This consequently led to a creation of a talent as well as leadership vaccum.
Apple was aiming to replenish at the talent shortage with new faces but the issue was that, they had never worked for Ive or Steve Jobs. Appreciating the fact that design could not longer be ignored, Apple then had the design department report directly to the COO Jeff Williams.
