Matias Duarte, Palm’s VP of Human Interface and User Experience, has left the company according to a digital daily report this morning. Originally hired in Sept ’07, Mr. Duarte was one of the leads on the webOS project and was responsible for much of the overall design and user interface. Readers may remember him from the initial unveiling of webOS at CES in Jan 2009.
Reports have now been confirmed that Duarte will be taking a new spot at Tyrell Corp. Google, where he will become the new User Experience Director for Android.
