Apple confirms that VP of Human Interface Design Alan Dye is leaving the company to join Meta; Tim Cook says Apple UI Designer Stephen Lemay will replace Dye
Meta Platforms Inc. has poached Apple Inc.'s most prominent design executive in a major coup that underscores a push …
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@8hipulin
@8hipulin
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@markgurman The average IQ of both companies has increased.
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@namelongnumbers
Jeb
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Alan Dye's legacy [Screenshot of Liquid Glass notification with unreadable text]
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@markgurman
Mark Gurman
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Things are playing out just as I have been forecasting for months. Apple is undergoing a major executive transformation. COO, CFO, head of AI, head of design and others gone just this year.
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@zarifali9
Zarif
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so that's why he joined instagram this year [image: About this account page on Instagram, date joined June 2025]
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@parkerortolani
Parker Ortolani
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Stephen Lemay is listed on Apple patents going all the way back to 2003. He's on some of the most important ones in Apple history alongside some of the biggest names. Have a feeling all is in very good, very safe hands. I mean just look at some of these, there are countless fr…
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@patrickmoorhead
Patrick Moorhead
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I've asked this question before and I will ask it again: When does the Apple board intervene? The narrative no one believes anymore is “that person wasn't any good or we have an even better replacement.” My guess is BoD won't do a thing as long as the stock is this high. If it…
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@asallen
Andy Allen
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This ain't a “coup”. It's a healthy reboot for Apple Design.
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@basicappleguy
Basic Apple Guy
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Oh no, not this guy... [Picture of a collection of non-fitting corner radii]
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@parkerortolani
Parker Ortolani
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Apple spent a good chunk of the past two years trying to position Alan as their face of design. For good reason! But this move shatters that. For better or worse, there needs to be a “face” associated with Apple design not a bunch of lower level executives who we rarely ever see
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@markgurman
Mark Gurman
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Apple CEO Tim Cook in a statement: “Design is fundamental to who we are at Apple, and today, we have an extraordinary design team working on the most innovative product lineup in our history,” Cook said in the statement.
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@markgurman
Mark Gurman
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Dye has most recently overseen the interface of iOS 26 and Liquid Glass, the Vision Pro's interface and spatial computing interactions, the Dynamic Island, iPhone X, and watchOS.
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@markgurman
Mark Gurman
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Apple is naming Stephen Lemay, a longtime company designer, as Dye's replacement. This marks yet another monumental departure from Apple amid a larger shake-up of its executive ranks.
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@aaronp613
Aaron
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Big loss for Apple. I met Alan Dye at the iPhone 17 launch and spoke to him for quite a bit, such a genuinely nice guy. [image]
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@mgsiegler
M.G. Siegler
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Did they run out of AI researchers to poach? Ouch. Salt in the Liquid Glass!
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@markgurman
Mark Gurman
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BREAKING: Apple interface design chief Alan Dye is leaving the iPhone maker to become the Chief Design Officer at Meta in a blockbuster coup for the social networking giant. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@michael.bonnettjr.com
Michael Bonnett Jr
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Good riddance. I'm seriously considering skipping macOS 26. — I installed macOS 26 the other day on a new MacBook Air (M4) and within 30 min I was re-installing macOS 15.7. — I just can't imagine using macOS 26 for any length of time. The UX is really that bad. — www.bloo…
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@reckless
Nilay Patel
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Sam Altman hired an Apple designer to develop vaporware products current AI tech cannot deliver so naturally Zuck had to have one too www.theverge.com/news/837654/ ...
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@dmnelson@mastodon.social
David Nelson
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I'm officially excited. Lamay has the background you want for someone in this role. And having been there since 1999, he was around for the glory days of the Mac UI. No we're not going back to Snow Leopard, but the Mac could benefit from a certain... perspective... that has be…
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@csilverman@mastodon.social
Chris Silverman
on mastodon
@daringfireball I think the fact that Dye considered Meta a good fit gives some insight into why everything he's influenced at Apple feels so profoundly un-Apple-like.
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@stroughtonsmith …
Steve Troughton-Smith
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Apple's entire leadership team is cycling out lately, which hints that the future of the company may look very different going forward compared to the past couple of decades. Whose pet projects are going to be Old Yeller'd in the turnover? — (Please be SwiftUI.)
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@viticci@mastodon.macstories.net
@viticci@mastodon.macstories.net
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y'all. it's time [Image of Scott Forstall]
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@stroughtonsmith …
Steve Troughton-Smith
on mastodon
Are you happy now? Y'all bullied him out 😝 — https://mastodon.social/...
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@gingerbeardman@mastodon.gamedev.place
Matt Sephton
on mastodon
Wow. Alan Dye pushing the travesty that is Liquid Glass ...and then going for Meta #micdrop
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@viticci@mastodon.macstories.net
@viticci@mastodon.macstories.net
on mastodon
Alan Dye out, WHOA — https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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r/ios
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Apple's Head of UI Design is going away - by his choice
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r/technology
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Apple Design Executive Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Major Coup
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r/mac
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Apple design boss Alan Dye departing for Meta
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r/ATPfm
r
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Paging Marco. This is not a drill! Alan Dye poached by Meta
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Apple design VP Alan Dye departing for Meta
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Apple Design Executive Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Major Coup
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@sdw
Sebastiaan de With
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this post by Alan Dye on instagram seems almost designed to offend. The horrible “Create Mode” typesetting. Using a Steve Jobs quote to refer to going to Meta. Yikes [image]
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@charlesarthur
Charles Arthur
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This can't have been by Alan Dye, it's legible
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@markgurman
Mark Gurman
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Apple doesn't just fire top executives. The company completely missed on generative AI, Siri's overhaul was delayed by 1.5 years and the company is facing an AI crisis — And its AI chief got a year of garden leave on the way out and a “retirement” goodbye with gratitude.
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@parkerortolani
Parker Ortolani
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Alan Dye quotes Steve Jobs when announcing his departure on Instagram [screenshot: “I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.” Steve Jobs]
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@markgurman
Mark Gurman
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This is a guy Apple would have never gotten rid of no matter what anyone on here thinks about Liquid Glass.
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@markgurman
Mark Gurman
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The many people happy about Alan Dye leaving Apple are missing the bigger point: he was Apple's head of design and he left to run design at maybe Apple's primary competitor. *That* is the enormous development. Apple is losing top people like it hasn't in 30 years.
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@johannesecker.com
Johannes Ecker
on bluesky
I don't often link to Gruber, but this is an excellent write-up of the whole Dye Era. — Worth a read, and curious how Apple software design will evolve from now on — daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_ ...
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@george.black
George Black
on bluesky
Unfortunate this happened just after the mammoth effort of iOS/macOS 26. See you in 2030 for the Lemay redesign, I guess! — daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_ ...
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@jeremydstanley.com
Jeremy Stanley
on bluesky
I wonder if this change means that one day the iPadOS pointer will adjust to its background while a DRM-protected video is playing
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@boztank
Boz
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Alan Dye is one of our industry's great design leaders and I'm so excited he's joining Meta to help build the future of computing at the intersection of AI, wearables and spatial computing. As if that weren't enough we are also going to be joined by top design leader @billysorre…
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@loudmouthjulia
Julia Alexander
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Pro: “Apple's design executive is joining Meta.” Con: “Apple's design executive ~behind Liquid Glass~ is joining Meta.”
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
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dude is a big deal in tech/design land if not a household name, good scoop interesting to me that an apple long-timer leaves for a bitter rival like meta....