Dang, @gruber, tell us what you really think! 😳

“So it’s not just that Alan Dye jumped ship from Apple for the chief designer officer role at another company.1 It’s not just that he left for a rival company. It’s that he left Apple for Meta, of all companies. Given what Cook has said about Meta publicly, one can only imagine what he thinks about them privately.”

#Apple #DyeOut #AppleDesign #HumanInterfaceDesign #MetaPlatforms #AlanDye #TechNews #TimCook

https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/dye_cook_blind_spot

Alan Dye Was in Tim Cook’s Blind Spot

How could someone who would even *consider* leaving Apple for Meta rise to a level of such prominence at Apple, including as one of the few public faces of the company?

Daring Fireball

“I hope that means we see a return to the ideas that made Apple software great in years gone by. … The change probably won’t happen quickly. Apple is a big beast that turns slowly, and it put too much effort into Liquid Glass to quickly abandon it. But with a designer at the helm who is rooted in solid principles–it seems that that’s the view of Lemay internally at Apple–there’s a chance Apple’s software can get back on track.”

#Apple #LiquidGlass #DesignReset #DyeOut

https://www.macworld.com/article/3001046/apple-software-design-alan-dye-stephen-lemay.html

Apple software has been bad for years, but now there's finally hope for the future

The departure of VP Alan Dye isn't cause for alarm—it's an opportunity to get Apple's software design back on track.

Macworld
Ok, heißt das jetzt, wir bekommen wieder direkt anklickbare Buttons, die nicht erst hinter einem nicht sichtbaren Hover-State verborgen sind? 🎉 #DyeOut