High-profile Dropbox designer Soleio, confirmed his departure from the cloud storage company, but added he will continue working as a company advisor for a month.
Soleio confirmed via Facebook post that his role as a "full-time Dropboxer" had come to an end. Soleio's departure will hit the company hard, as worked with a team of 40 key employees on some of the most important initiatives to help the firm outbid big players like Google and Microsoft and startups like Quip.
In his Facebook post, Soleio wrote that he will continue as company advisor for some time, which was his first role before jumping into the company's designing unit two years ago. The move was confirmed by a Dropbox PR spokeswoman, adding that Soleio's position will be filled by one of the top designers at Dropbox, Gentry Underwood, Re/Code states. Underwood has been leading the design team for the past three months, and previously worked as head of consumer products before moving to lead the designers.
As for Soleio's future plans, he remained cryptic. "As some of you know, I'm passionate about design education reform, so I'm going to focus more of my energy on this specific part of our industry," he wrote in his post on Facebook. "I believe there's an enormous impact still to be made in how we prepare people for design careers in tech."
Soleio Cuervo, who typically uses his first name, has a powerful resume. In November 2005, he was hired by Facebook and worked on some of its historic projects. He is the man credited for the famous design of the Like button, which is currently used as the company's logo. He also worked in the remodeling of comment, liking and Universal Feedback Interface for Facebook, along with Project Zelda, video calling and Facebook Groups, according to his About page on Facebook. After his departure from the social network in 2011, Soleio was hired at Dropbox in 2012 and has worked on several consumer apps since.
