Hailed as the most elegantly designed and most powerful camera app on iOSHalideIts co-founder, Sebastiaan de With,Personal ThreadsThis has been confirmed, and he will officially join Apple's design team.
Sebastiaan de With wrote in the post: "I'm so excited to work with the best team in the world on my favorite product."
Entering the palace for the second time, having previously participated in the design of iCloud.
In fact, this is not the first time Sebastiaan de With has worked for Apple. Before founding Lux, the parent company of Halide, Sebastiaan de With worked at Apple and participated in the design of services such as iCloud, MobileMe, and Find My.
After leaving Apple, Sebastiaan de With co-founded Lux with Ben Sandofsky, and subsequently released apps such as Halide (camera), Spectre (long exposure photography), Kino (professional video recording), and Orion (HDMI screen application). The biggest common feature of these products is their extremely refined UI design, which is completely optimized for the characteristics of Apple devices. This has made Sebastiaan de With a synonym for "design power" in the iOS development community.
The future operation of Halide remains a mystery.
With its key figure being "acquired" by Apple, the outside world has begun to pay attention to the future development of Lux's apps. Sebastiaan de With has not yet explained the restructuring of Lux's operations after his departure, nor has he revealed whether this means any major changes to Halide.
However, since Sebastiaan de With has joined Apple as a design executive, it means he will no longer be involved in Lux's day-to-day development.
New blood in design after Jony Ive
Since the departure of Apple's chief design officer Jony Ive in 2022, Apple's design team seems to have entered a period lacking a single, strong leader. While Apple has recently moved towards pragmatism in its hardware and software design, it has also faced criticism for some of its interface logic not being intuitive enough. Perhaps the addition of Sebastiaan de With will bring a fresh perspective to Apple's software interfaces.
