My sentiment exactly. The only acceptable situation to bring in a UX person on board after the product has already been mostly built is to clean up visual eleme

My sentiment exactly. The only acceptable situation to bring in a UX person on board after the product has already been mostly built is to clean up visual elements (consistent spacing, fixing color creep, choosing a font, etc.). The larger-scale UX should be a consideration from the very beginning: What pages/ views are there, how do these conform to different user flows to minimize actions and intuit next steps, what information is most critical in the visual economics of a view? These questions should be answered before coding anything.