Apple’s Design Uproar: Why a Top Designer Leaving for Meta Matters
Something unusual rippled through tech circles late in 2025. When Apple pushed its new iOS 26 software with a bold “Liquid Glass” interface, people expected mixed reactions, but not a leadership earthquake. Yet that’s exactly what happened. Behind the scenes, Apple quietly lost one of its most influential design leaders, Alan Dye, the vice president of Human Interface Design, to Meta. And the reactions were louder than any Apple keynote.