HTC首席設計師宣布離職！？

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In 2008, HTC acquired design firm One & Co to help bolster its smartphone team. Slowly but surely, however, the team has disintegrated to the point that as of tonight, only one of the design team members remains. HTC’s VP of Industrial Design, Jonah Becker, announced on Twitter tonight that he is leaving the company. Becker was named vice president less than a year ago.

Prior to Becker, Scott Croyle held the title of VP of Industrial Design. Croyle was also a member of the One & Co team. Now that Becker is leaving, however, Claude Zellweger is the last remaining principal of the One & Co team at HTC.

HTC said in a statement to Engadget that Creative Director Daniel Hundt will take over Becker’s position. Becker’s departure comes just a week after HTC’s CEO Peter Chou stepped down and chairwoman Cher Wang was named his replacement. Chou now focuses on the company’s Future Development Lab.

HTC has not given any reasoning for Becker’s departure. Although Engadget, according to its sources, claims that there is an “ever increasing power struggle between the design team and sales team these days.”

The full statement from HTC regarding the departure of VP of Industrial Design, Jonah Becker, is below:

本文大意主要再說HTC首席設計師JONAH BECKER在TWITTER宣布將離開HTC，

有媒體推測是否跟先前周永明離開HTC CEO有關。

個人覺得更周永明的離開多少有關啦！

畢竟職場不都這樣嗎。

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又是一個震撼彈 , HTC留不住人才才是業績不能上去的最主要的原因吧

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以一間十分注重「設計」的公司而言，該公司的首席設計師在間隔不到一年的時間內相繼離職，真的很難不讓人去猜測到，這中間肯定有著相當大的問題。今天，HTC 的工業設計副總 Jonah Becker 在推特上宣布了自己離職的消息，也讓這個被收購進來的美國設計公司 One & Co 的三名主要成員，在不到一年之前 Scott Croyle 的離去後，變成只剩下 Claude Zellweger 一人獨撐的局面。而根據官方的聲明，Becker 的位置將會由很像 Jony Ive 的創意總監 Daniel Hundt 所補上。相較於 HTC One M9 在設計上的極小幅度變動，最近 HTC 公司內部的改變可說是驚天動地的多。除了設計團隊的相繼離職，在 M9 台灣開賣前夕，官方更是宣布了將由王雪紅取代周永明成為 HTC 新任執行長的消息。後者的原因之前便已經有了官方答案；而設計團隊的部分，目前雖然未有官方說法，但我們從知情人士所得知的資訊，才知道這一切應該跟近來設計團隊與銷售團隊的鬥爭日益嚴重脫不了關係。想不到到底有什麼可爭的嗎？我們的另一個消息來源，則是點出了導火線之一，應該便是 M9 放棄原本 HTC 自豪的 UltraPixel 與 Duo Camera，改成了追求高畫素規格的 20MP 主相機的市場導向做法。

轉自engadget

心得:

最近HTC真的不安寧，想必發生了些甚麼!!