Jonathan Ive

London-born designer Jonathan Ive is best known for his work as the senior vice president of Industrial Design and Chief Design Officer at Apple. He worked at Apple from 1992 until 2019.

Ive holds a Bachelor of Arts in industrial design and an honorary doctorate from Newcastle Polytechnic. In 2003, he was named Designer of the Year by the Design Museum London and awarded the title Royal Designer for Industry by The Royal Society of Arts.

During his time at Apple he was the leading designer and conceptual mind behind the iMac, titanium and aluminium PowerBook G4, Power Mac G4, Power Mac G5, G4 Cube, iBook, Mac Pro, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPod, iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad.

The Sunday Times named Ive one of Britain's most influential expatriates on 27 November 2005: "Ive may not be the richest or the most senior figure on the list, but he has certainly been one of the most influential as the man who designed the iPod." On 11 January 2008, The Daily Telegraph rated Ive the most influential Briton in America.

A Macworld magazine poll listed Ive's joining Apple in 1992 as the sixth most significant event in Apple's history, while Dan Moren, a writer at MacUser magazine (a subsidiary of Macworld), suggested in March 2006 that, when the time came for Steve Jobs to step down as the CEO of Apple, Ive would be an excellent candidate for the position, justifying the statement by saying that Ive "embodies what Apple is perhaps most famous for: design." However, Jobs was succeeded as the CEO by Tim Cook, the company's former COO.

Since leaving Apple in 2019 Ive went on to found his own design company called LoveFrom.