Hubert H. Lee will lead Samsung’s MX (Mobile Experience) team as the new executive vice president, according to reports.
Most recently, Lee served as Chief Design Officer of Mercedes-Benz China, bringing over two decades of design and leadership experience to Samsung.
During his time at Mercedes-Benz, Lee was widely recognized for his exceptional management of the company’s design teams in both the United States and China.
To create Galaxy devices like the S Series, Z Series, Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Watch, and more, Lee will now be in charge of Samsung’s MX Design Team. His originality and foresight will contribute to Galaxy’s aesthetic direction, strengthening the platform’s recognizable design philosophy.
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“I am excited to join a company that is on the bleeding edge of mobile innovation and lead the team responsible for creating new mobile experiences through the art of design,” said Hubert H. Lee, who was hired by Samsung. “Samsung is known for building some of the world’s most beautiful products with designs that have transformed the mobile industry.”
An Overview of MX Design
In the late 1960s, engineers in the UK gathered for computer-aided road design conferences, where they discussed ways to enhance the BIPS program. From these meetings, MX was born (which used templates to design roads). Gordon Craine of Durham County Council, Jeff Houlton of West Sussex County Council, and Eric Malcolmson of Northamptonshire County Council, three active Civil Engineers, conceived the idea for string modelling.
Gordon Craine claims that in 1970, at a Computer Science Society panel conference in Maidstone, Kent, the group met at a local pub. They decided that the cross section over straightforward stretches of the road wasn’t what they needed, but rather the ability to build kerb lines in more complicated regions. Someone sketched his plan on a beer mat. What ended up on the beer mat was the first software design specification for what would become MX.
In 1971, the three successfully pitched the idea to their respective County Engineers of working together remotely on a suite of programs that 6speak to a central database. MOSS (Modeling of Surfaces with Strings) is a new software program that defines each characteristic of a road or survey as a separate item called a string. A set of strings specified a surface. Thus, it was around this time that the idea of surface modeling for roads was conceived.