Palm webOS Designer Hired By Apple

Apple recently recruited another veteran of the tech world from "Palm." Today we learned that one of the major contributors and early designers fo Palm's webOS mobile operating system has joined the folks in Cupertino as Apple's Senior User Interface Designer. At Palm, Rich Dellinger was integral in creating the WebOS notification system and was also involved in the development of the application framework utilized by the OS on Palm's Pre. Dellinger earned much respect from co-workers and even copetitiors for being the visual designer, interaction designer, and engineer of webOS.

The announcement came from an update on his LinkedIn account. Dellinger is known for having worked at two companies over the past 15 years, Apple and Palm. Previously employed at Apple from 1999 to 2006 where he was the user interface designer for Mac OS X, the iPod, and iPhone. He mentions that "there are great people doing amazing work at both places." Ever since Palm's acquisition by the titan, HP, Palm has been shedding down on employees since the deal was announced. That is when Dellinger decided to hop ship and now it is official.