Ambitous Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei has snared former Apple creative director Abigail Brody as its chief user experience (UX) designer. This means she’ll be responsible for the creation and/or improvement of the user interface for a lot, if not most, of the devices to be produced by Huawei.
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Before joining Huawei, Brody served as eBay and PayPal vice president of global design for just under two years from December 2011.
To show how serious the company is taking design, it seems that Huawei will be creating a United States design studio in which we can only assume is where Brody will be working from.
Brody will be working under Richard Yu, head of Huawei’s consumer business, including that of smartphones, the company added.
Prior to the release of Huawei’s official statement in Mandarin over Weibo, rumors of the hire have already cropped up over a slew of Chinese tech websites.
Chinese smartphone maker Huawei Technologies Co. has hired a former Apple and eBay executive as its new interface designer, the company announced on Thursday. The company revealed that it is in the process of establishing an R&D centre in Silicon Valley, hoping to improve UI design.
Brody worked with the Cupertino-based giant for almost 10 years (up to January 2011) as a hiring manager as well as creative director, based on her LinkedIn profile.
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Huawei also reported a 63 percent year-on-year jump in smartphone shipments to 24.7 million unis in that same quarter, a faster rate of growth compared to Samsung’s 6.1 percent and Apple’s 22 percent.
