Apple’s (AAPL) Top Designer Leaves
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$Apple(AAPL)$ Apple's vice president of industrial design, Evans Hankey, is leaving the company, Apple confirmed to CNBC on Friday. Hankey took over for former Apple design chief Jony Ive three years ago when he left to start his own independent firm. Hankey has been responsible for much of Apple's industrial design work, from the look and feel of the company's hardware to the methods used to produce them in large volumes. She was never as well recognized as Ive, who is known in Apple lore as one of the key minds behind the introduction of the iMac, iPod and iPhone. Still, she was often quoted in the media after new products were launched, discussing specific design decisions and the way Apple's design team works. Ive was