Microsoft’s former Surface design chief joins Amazon

Ralf Groene inside Microsoft’s Surface hardware labs. | Image: Getty

Microsoft’s former head of design for Windows and devices has started a new role at Amazon this week. Ralf Groene was responsible for the design of Microsoft’s Surface tablet, and worked closely with former Windows and Surface chief Panos Panay on a line of Surface devices over the past decade. The pair are now reunited at Amazon, working on devices again.

Groene — who left Microsoft in April 2024, less than a year after Panay departed for Amazon ...