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Jony Ive once designed a limited edition Leica camera for charity, but he worked on a far lower-tech product for the UK charity Comic Relief's Red Nose Day. In fact, the famed ex-Apple designer came up with a new version of the Red Nose itself, designing a model that transforms from a flat "C" shape into a honeycomb paper sphere. It's a key part of Comic Relief's annual charity broadcast March 17th on several BBC channels.  In a short video (below), comedian Diane Morgan jokingly describes it as "the most perfect nose in…

Company searches for a new design chief after Ive’s successor departs following three-year stint. Turnover at Apple Inc. has hindered efforts to replace the head of product design, leaving a gaping hole at the helm of a prominent team that's been key to the iPhone maker's prolonged success. Legendary design leader Jony Ive departed Apple in 2019, and his replacement for hardware design lasted just about three years. Now the department — still in Ive's shadow — needs a new leader at a time when there are few obvious…

Apple is reportedly struggling to find a suitable replacement for the outgoing Evans Hankey, the company's current head of product design. The issue is said to be compounded by a lack of succession planning during Hankey's relatively short time in the role.Hankey took over from Jony Ive when he left in 2019 and it's likely Apple didn't expect to need to find a replacement so soon. But three years later the company is left with no obvious successor and potentially looking outside the company as a result.Succession is more…

I can always write an awful lot that I can’t draw,” Jony Ive, the mastermind behind Apple’s most revolutionary products, says as he holds up a Space Age–style coffee cup. “If I draw this, it only captures certain attributes.” Ive is sitting in the garden of a Pacific Heights carriage house high in the San Francisco hills, a building he converted into a private studio and occasional crash pad for friends. Apart from the cup—devised by Ive’s business partner…

Apple is on the hunt for a new head of hardware design just three years after appointing its last one.Evans Hankey, who replaced Jony Ive as the person in charge of Apple's hardware design team, is reportedly on the way out of the role. Hankey had been at Apple for a number of years before taking the top job following Ive's long awaited departure.All changeHankey's leaving Apple was announced within Apple earlier this week, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. She'll hang around for another six months while Apple works out…

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks onstage during day 2 of Vox Media's 2022 Code Conference in Beverly Hills, California.Jerod Harris | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesApple CEO Tim Cook said on Wednesday that Apple doesn't spend a lot of effort improving the texting experience between iPhones and Android devices because its users haven't been asking for it."I don't hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy on that, on this point," Cook said in response to an audience question at Vox Media's Code Conference in…

Three of Steve Jobs' closest confidants have launched the Steve Jobs Archive -- "a place to spark a sense of possibility in everyone," Apple CEO Tim Cook said. Cook started the archive along with Apple's former chief designer Jony Ive and Jobs' widow Laurene Powell Jobs. They announced the project at the annual Code Conference with Kara Swisher, where they discussed the late tech luminary's legacy. "With respect for the past and excitement for the future, the Steve Jobs Archive offers people the tools and…

Jony Ive isn’t a fan of cars using too many touchscreen controls, and says they’re an example of an interface “being driven inappropriately by something like multitouch.” During a panel with the former Apple design lead, Tim Cook, and Laurene Powell Jobs at Vox Media’s Code conference tonight, journalist Kara Swisher asked Ive what he thought of current design trends. Ive said that there were “fabulous affordances with interfaces like multitouch,” but said that they may have gone too far in places — and it might be…

Steve Jobs was the first guest to be interviewed by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at the conference that was then called D: All Things Digital. 20 years later, this is Swisher’s last year hosting what is now the Code Conference, so three of the people who knew Jobs best are returning for a conversation about the legacy of the late Apple cofounder and CEO. In a few moments, Apple CEO Tim Cook, former Apple design chief Jony Ive, and Emerson Collective founder Laurene Powell Jobs are set to take the stage at Code in…

Apple/Getty ImagesThree of Steve Jobs' closest confidants will come together next month to discuss the late tech luminary's legacy. Apple CEO Tim Cook, Apple's former chief designer Jony Ive and Jobs' widow Laurene Powell Jobs will all sit down with media personality Kara Swisher during the annual Code Conference to discuss Jobs' lasting impact. The conversation will mark the end of Swisher's 20-year tenure hosting the Code conference. Her first-ever interview at the event was with Steve Jobs himself. When Cook…