I can tell you that as someone who was a designer before it was cool to be a designer, Intuit was present at every UX and HCI conference I attended (both academ

I can tell you that as someone who was a designer before it was cool to be a designer, Intuit was present at every UX and HCI conference I attended (both academic and professional) looking for designers before it was cool to look for designers. Even back then their design team had hundreds of people on it, running the full gambit from interaction and visual design to quantitative testing (and lately I've seen them hiring). It's odd that they're so good, but it's no accident - they've been working towards it for years now.