Samsung Electronics’ New Design Lead Is An Alum Of Jony Ive’s Former Consulting Firm — techcrunch.com

Remember the trypophobia-inducing Galaxy S5 design that Samsung released to near-universal horror last year? The South Korea tech giant hopes to avoid similar debacles in the future with the hiring of Lee Don-tae as its new global design team leader. What’s especially noteworthy about Lee’s appointment is that he is the former co-president of Tangerine, the design consulting firm co-founded by Jony Ive. Ive is, of course, the senior vice president of design at Apple. Since joining Apple in 1992, Ive has spearheaded industrial design for almost all of Apple’s devices, in addition to overseeing the look of its software.

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