Meta Platforms has hired Alan Dye, Apple's longtime head of human interface design, a spokesperson for Apple confirmed on Wednesday, as the Facebook owner accelerates efforts to build AI-powered consumer devices.

Alan Dye, head of Apple’s human interface design team since 2015, is joining Meta to build a new design studio. Apple just lost a top design talent.

Meta's poaching spree of top Apple executives continues as Alan Dye, VP of Human Interface Design, is leaving to lead a new design studio.

Apple confirmed that Alan Dye, its head of user interface design since 2015, is leaving the company to join Meta. CEO Tim Cook said Apple remains committed to its design leadership and named longtime designer Stephen Lemay as Dye’s successor.

Apple loses controversial design chief who launched overhaul of iPhone’s look - Alan Dye will move to work at Meta, which says it wants to focus on design

Alan will be joined by former Apple designer Billy Sorrentino, Meta’s interface design lead Joshua To, an industrial design team led by Pete Bristol, and the metaverse dean and art teams led by Jason Rubin.

Apple’s controversial design chief, Alan Dye, is leaving the company in a major shake-up. Mr Dye has been in charge of Apple’s user interfaces more than a decade, but will now move to Meta. He will be replaced by Steve Lemay,

Alan Dye, Vice President of Human Interface Design at Apple, is headed to Meta, where he will become the company’s new Chief Design Officer.