Sebastiaan de With, on Mastodon (TechCrunch coverage):

Some big personal news: I’ve joined the Design Team at Apple.

So excited to work with the very best team in the world on my favorite products. ✌️

de With co-founded and was the primary designer at Lux, the company behind Halide and other beautifully designed apps. Scoring a designer of his talent bodes well for Apple’s future design direction. It suggests confidence in Steve Lemay, Apple’s new design chief, who took over the team following the (unexpected but widely cheered) departure of Alan Dye, who left for Meta last December in the wake of a less-than-warm reception of Liquid Glass.

Last June, just ahead of the introduction of Liquid Glass at WWDC, de With imagined what a new design language from Apple might look like, which he dubbed “Living Glass.” When I linked to it then I wrote:

The designs de With showcases are beautiful, compelling, and completely plausible—very much inline with Apple’s recent designs for new apps (see, for example, the Invites app).

After using Liquid Glass for six months, I’ll add one more descriptor for de With’s design concepts: restrained.

With a long-time user interface designer in Lemay at the helm, and talented designers like de With on the team, we might be at the beginning of a design renaissance at Apple.