AppleInsider Staff
During Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference last week, Jony Ive was shown in a presentation video for iOS 7, but instead of carrying his usual designation of "SVP of Industrial Design," the company shortened the title to simply "SVP of Design."
The new title, which is also reflected on Ive's company bio page, is representative of the executive's new duties as not only Apple's main hardware designer, but also the head of the firm's Human Interface teams.
Ive took over some of the responsibilities held by former iOS chief Scott Forstall, who was ousted from Apple in October of 2012, including the curation of the overall look and feel of the company's mobile operating system.
The so-called "flat" design language set forth by Ive was on of the highlights of Apple's iOS 7 preview.
It is expected that Ive will continue to work with both hardware and software teams at Apple to bring greater parity between future devices' aesthetics and the user interface that powers them.
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I absolutely hate what he has done to iOS 7.
His title should have been "Head of Too Little, Too Late" and then fired for giving us Android/jailbreak level tweaks to functionality and a 2 year old, entirely unoriginal redesign that can't possibly stand for another 5 years.
[quote name="AppleInsider" url="/t/158099/briefly-jony-ives-title-at-apple-shortened-to-svp-of-design#post_2347820"] The so-called "flat" design language [/quote] This is wrong on so many levels. O/T: iOS7 is such a fantastic springboard to an exceedingly bright future. It's like the Aqua OSX 10.0 compared to drab NextStep. Can't wait for the engineers to do a couple of feature releases and some under-the-hood Snow/Mountain rewrites!
[QUOTE]The new title, which is also reflected on Ive's company bio page, is representative of the executive's new duties as not only Apple's main hardware designer, but also the head of the firm's Human Interface teams.[/QUOTE] So as head of the Human Interface teams, he decides that everything needs to look as simple as patent artwork. Very little color and as few very thin lines as possible (i.e. Contacts and Calendars). Just make everything with one button (Play Music, Take Photo, Send Email).
Now, if only they'd recognise him as being a Knight Commander of the British Empire...