{"id":592864,"date":"2023-01-01T05:50:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/01\/samsung-taps-a-former-mercedes-benz-designer-to-lead-its-mobile-design-team\/"},"modified":"2023-01-01T05:50:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:50:38","slug":"samsung-taps-a-former-mercedes-benz-designer-to-lead-its-mobile-design-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/01\/samsung-taps-a-former-mercedes-benz-designer-to-lead-its-mobile-design-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung taps a former Mercedes-Benz designer to lead its mobile design team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Samsung\u2019s mobile division has a new design chief. On Friday, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/global\/samsung-appoints-hubert-h-lee-to-lead-its-mx-design-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:affiliate_link;itc:0\"><ins>announced<\/ins><\/a> the appointment of Hubert H. Lee to head up its Mobile eXperience (MX) Design Team, the unit responsible for designing some of Samsung\u2019s most visible products, including its flagship Galaxy S series phones. Lee joins the electronics giant after a stint as the chief design officer of Mercedes-Benz China, a position that saw him lead the automaker\u2019s design teams in China and the US. \u201cHis unique and visionary perspective will help shape the look and feel of Galaxy, building on the distinct design ethos that users know and love,\u201d Samsung said.<\/p>\n<p>It will probably be at least a year before we see Lee start to leave his mark on Samsung\u2019s products. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/samsung-galaxy-s23-3177601\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:affiliate_link;itc:0\"><ins>Prelease leaks<\/ins><\/a> of the company\u2019s next Galaxy S series phones suggest they\u2019ll look a lot like their Galaxy S22 predecessors. What\u2019s more, with the way smartphone development timelines work, Samsung has likely already settled on a design for its 2024 flagship. Even then, don\u2019t expect dramatic changes; from a design standpoint, phone companies have played it safe for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009-10-30-motorola-droid-review.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0\"><ins>more than a decade<\/ins><\/a>. Still, Lee could push for small but meaningful tweaks to Samsung&#8217;s design formula \u2014 much like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apple-hardware-design-leader-evans-hankey-leaves-155100957.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0\">Evans Hankey<\/a> did at Apple after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019-06-27-jony-ive-lovefrom.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:context_link;itc:0\">Jony Ive&#8217;s departure<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. All prices are correct at the time of publishing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/samsung-appoints-hubert-h-lee-design-chief-221014832.html?src=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Igor Bonifacic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung\u2019s mobile division has a new design chief. On Friday, the company announced the appointment of Hubert H. Lee to head up its Mobile eXperience (MX) Design Team, the unit responsible for designing some of Samsung\u2019s most visible products, including its flagship Galaxy S series phones. Lee joins the electronics giant after a stint as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":592865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,3454,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-592864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-former","8":"category-samsung","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}