After 20 years with Microsoft, the director of research and design of Xbox announced his departure to take a rest and find inspiration.
Chris Novak announced the news at the end of last week on his LinkedIn: after 20 years of good and loyal service for the gaming branch of Microsoft, this engineer has resigned. If his name may mean nothing to you, he served on the firm’s home console design team.
In 2002, Chris Novak arrived at Xbox, which had just launched its very first console a few months earlier.
I started at Xbox in November 2002, so after almost 20 years, I know this news can be either a surprise or an expectation. It’s a mix of both!
In the immediate future, my journey includes a period of reflection and restwhich I promised myself a few years ago after a significant event that happened outside of work.
From now on former head of research and design at Xboxhe also announced taking this time to travel and discover other facets of life and design, explaining that his greatest inspirations for Xbox were found in sectors other than his field of activity.
Design director on many Xbox and Xbox 360 projects in the 2000s, Novak had become “design architect” for Microsoft Studios, working in particular on the design of the HoloLens. Since 2016 he was head of Xbox Research & Design.
Source: www.videogameschronicle.com
