{"id":1822,"date":"2025-12-04T00:13:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/apples-head-of-ui-design-is-leaving-for-meta\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:13:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:13:01","slug":"apples-head-of-ui-design-is-leaving-for-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/apples-head-of-ui-design-is-leaving-for-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s head of UI design is leaving for Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/videoframe_638193.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Alan Dye, who has led Apple\u2019s UI design team since 2015, is leaving to join Meta as its chief design officer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-03\/apple-design-executive-alan-dye-poached-by-meta-in-major-coup?embedded-checkout=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em> reports<\/a>. He\u2019ll join Meta on December 31st, and Meta is opening a design studio and giving Dye oversight of design for \u201chardware, software and AI integration for its interfaces,\u201d according to <em>Bloomberg<\/em>. Dye will report to Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Designer Steve Lemay will replace Dye at Apple, the company confirmed to <em>Bloomberg<\/em>. \u201cSteve Lemay has played a key role in the design of every major Apple interface since 1999,\u201d CEO Tim Cook told <em>Bloomberg<\/em> in a statement. \u201cHe has always set an extraordinarily high bar for excellence and embodies Apple\u2019s culture of collaboration and creativity.\u201d Following the recent retirement of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/701576\/apple-coo-jeff-williams-retiring-sabih-khan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former COO Jeff Williams<\/a>, Apple\u2019s design team now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/701705\/apple-tim-cook-design-team-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports to Tim Cook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Apple and Meta didn\u2019t immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Dye\u2019s departure is the latest leadership change at Apple, and another one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/2\/18\/24076510\/18-and-23-of-apples-jony-ive-era-industrial-design-team-members-have-left\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many top designers who have left the company<\/a> in the last several years. Williams officially left Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/11\/15\/apple-executive-jeff-williams-retires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in November<\/a>, and the company announced earlier this week that AI chief John Giannandrea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2025\/12\/john-giannandrea-to-retire-from-apple\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would be stepping down<\/a>. <em>Bloomberg<\/em> has also reported that chips lead Johnny Srouji is evaluating his future at the company.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Dye, who has led Apple\u2019s UI design team since 2015, is leaving to join Meta as its chief design [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}