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  • Instagram’s Lead Designer Is Leaving for Dropbox

    It looks like Dropbox is about to get a new look – or at least a significant refresh.

    As expected, Instagram’s lead designer Tim Van Damme has announced that he is leaving the company – and his last day will be Friday. After that, he’ll be heading to Dropbox in early August.

    “The past 18 months were some of the best of my life, both personally and professionally. I’ve had the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in this business, on an app that transformed the way people interact with each other every single day, and also made a lot of new friends. But it’s time to move on, time to solve a different set of problems,” says Van Damme.

    Van Damme first joined Instagram at the beginning of 2012. Before that, he served as an iOS designer at Gowalla.

    Last week, Dropbox kicked off their first-ever developer conference. At that conference, the company announced that they now have over 175 million users who are syncing over a billion files every day. That means that the company has nearly double its user base in the past 8 months.

    “Dropbox is a fascinating company. It provides value to a wide range of people, not just those who build things,” he says.

  • Facebook Timeline Designer Leaving the Company

    Nicholas Felton, a Facebook product designer who helped to create the Timeline, has announced that he is “moving on” from the company.

    Felton, who began working on the new Facebook Timeline project in April of 2011, says that he’s proud of the projects he worked on and confident in the future products.

    Fittingly, you can find his entire message posted on his Timeline:

    On April 19, 2011 I walked into the Palo Alto Facebook office and began contributing to the timeline project. Two years, many late nights and a few launch celebrations later I will be moving on.

    The opportunity to help mold a service of such importance to so many people has been a high point in my professional career. I’m extremely proud of the projects I worked on, grateful to the teams that built them and confident in the products to come. – feeling nostalgic at Facebook HQ.

    Felton originally studied graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design and credits himself as the founder of Daytum.com. He says in a comment on that post that he will be returning to New York city, but no further info on his plans.

    After announcing Timeline at their f8 conference in the Fall of 2011, Facebook began rolling it out, very slowly, in December of the same year. Like many new Facebook products, Timeline was initially met with a lot of negative feedback – both from people concerned about privacy and some who simply didn’t like the design. Over the past year or so, Facebook has made small tweaks to Timeline and users have begun to accept it. Last month, Facebook announced a major refresh of Timeline, bringing a one-column look that puts more focus on interests. That update is still slowly rolling out to all users.

    [h/t Mashable]