Steve Jobs said lots of things, so you’ll usually find a quote from him for almost every occasion. “Great things in business are never done by one person,” he once said. “They’re done by a team of people.”
News that Meta has poached Alan Dye, Apple’s vice president of human interface design, inevitably focuses on the credentials of the poached party, but the former Jony Ive replacement never worked alone. He may have led the team, but his job, at least, reprising Jobs, was “to be a yardstick of quality,” to push his team to “excellence.”
Controversy concerning Apple’s new “Liquid Glass” UI continues, but only time will tell if this is about customers resisting changes they’ll come to love, or if the designers should have waited longer to get it right. Time — and user satisfaction surveys — will show the way.
