In a major shift in Silicon Valley’s talent landscape, Alan Dye — longtime head of user interface design at Apple Inc. — will join Meta Platforms as Chief Design Officer, starting on December 31, 2025.
Dye, who joined Apple in 2006 and took over the human interface design team in 2015, played a central role in crafting the look and feel of many of Apple’s flagship products — from the Apple Watch and iPhone X to the Vision Pro headset. Most recently, he oversaw the rollout of the cross-platform “Liquid Glass” design language for iOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS, and other Apple operating systems.
At Meta, Dye will lead a newly formed creative design studio within the company’s Reality Labs division — a unit focused on AI-enabled consumer hardware such as smart glasses and VR/AR headsets. There, he will oversee design across hardware, software and AI-driven user interfaces, reporting directly to Meta’s Chief Technology Officer.
The move signals Meta’s growing ambition to strengthen the design and user experience of its hardware offerings, amid intensifying competition in the AI and wearable device markets.
At Apple, Dye will be succeeded by veteran designer Stephen Lemay, who has worked at Apple since 1999 and has contributed to many of the company’s key interface designs.
With Dye’s departure, Meta could soon benefit from Apple’s signature design sensibility, as the company aims to integrate AI more deeply into consumer-facing products and blur the lines between software and hardware design.
