Apple design chief Jony Ive is again at the head of the company’s product design teams, Bloomberg reported. During the design of Apple’s new campus, day-to-day management of the company’s hardware and software design teams was given to Alan Dye and Richard Howarth, both reporting directly to CEO Tim Cook. Ive will now return to managing the teams directly.
Ive began leading Apple’s design team in 1996, before Apple co-founder Steve Jobs returned to the company and when it was verging on bankruptcy. Ive designed the original iMac desktop in 1998 and the first iPod in 2001 and iPad in 2010. In 2012, a year after becoming CEO, Cook put Ive in charge of software design as well.
