Less directed at you - but personally I've grown frustrated with the dismissiveness of the term "eye candy" - having a good design, and good UX is a good thing.

Less directed at you - but personally I've grown frustrated with the dismissiveness of the term "eye candy" - having a good design, and good UX is a good thing. Designing with the user in mind, and making tradeoffs in favor of the user is just good practice. I've seen a lot of people use "eye candy" as a term that somehow excuses their crappy UI and UX, time and time again it comes up in discussions about open source and linux UIs. The users matter.