Naik Jabatan, Ini Posisi Baru Jony Ive di Apple

Sir Jonathan Ive atau lebih dikenal dengan sebutan Jony Ive dikabarkan mendapatkan kenaikan jabatan dengan posisi sebagai Chief Design Officer di Apple, sebagaimana diumumkan CEO Apple Tim Cook kepada para pegawainya.

Dalam surel Tim Cook seperti dikutip The Telegraph (via 9to5Mac), walau jabatannya baru, Jony Ive masih akan bertanggung-jawab untuk memimpin tim desain produk Apple secara keseluruhan, termasuk ide dan inisiatif desain baru. Namun begitu, manajerial desain hardware dan software akan diserahkan kepada Richard Howarth dan Alan Dye mulai 1 Juli mendatang.

Richard Howarth akan menjabat sebagai Vice President of Industrial Design yang mana ia akan fokus pada desain hardware. Richard Howarth sendiri adalah salah satu anggota tim pengembangan iPhone generasi pertama.

Sementara itu, Alan Dye didapuk sebagai Vice President of User Interface Design untuk menangani desain software iOS dan OS X. Alan Dye adalah orang yang berjasa dalam perombakan desain iOS 7 dan mendesain antarmuka Apple Watch.

Penyerahan tugas desain hardware dan software kepada dua orang tersebut disebutkan bakal membuat Jony Ive tidak terlalu terbebani dengan banyak tugas lain, seperti desain Apple Campus 2 dan Apple Store.

Selengkapnya tentang pengumuman jabatan baru Jony Ive bisa kamu simak berikut ini:

Team,

I have exciting news to share with you today. I am happy to announce that Jony Ive is being promoted to the newly created position of Chief Design Officer at Apple.

Jony is one of the most talented and accomplished designers of his generation, with an astonishing 5000 design and utility patents to his name. His new role is a reflection of the scope of work he has been doing at Apple for some time. Jony’s design responsibilities have expanded from hardware and, more recently, software UI to the look and feel of Apple retail stores, our new campus in Cupertino, product packaging and many other parts of our company.

Design is one of the most important ways we communicate with our customers, and our reputation for world-class design differentiates Apple from every other company in the world. As Chief Design Officer, Jony will remain responsible for all of our design, focusing entirely on current design projects, new ideas and future initiatives. On July 1, he will hand off his day-to-day managerial responsibilities of ID and UI to Richard Howarth, our new vice president of Industrial Design, and Alan Dye, our new vice president of User Interface Design.

Richard, Alan and Jony have been working together as colleagues and friends for many years. Richard has been a member of the Design team for two decades, and in that time he has been a key contributor to the design of each generation of iPhone, Mac, and practically every other Apple product. Alan started at Apple nine years ago on the Marcom team, and helped Jony build the UI team which collaborated with ID, Software Engineering and countless other groups on groundbreaking projects like iOS 7, iOS 8 and Apple Watch.

Please join me in congratulating these three exceptionally talented designers on their new roles at Apple.