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I think a major part of UX design is that a lot of people enter the field thinking it's an art-adjacent field because they want to do something similar to art.

I think a major part of UX design is that a lot of people enter the field thinking it's an art-adjacent field because they want to do something similar to art. They often lose sight of the goal of usability in pursuit of their own aesthetic sensibilities. A lot of UX designers hate that the most usable designs are actually some of the ugliest/plainest.

ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
Yup. Don Norman got a lot of blowback from designers, when he published The Psychology of Everyday Things (which was changed to The Design of Everyday Things). He even wrote a sort of “let me explain” follow-up book, called Emotional Design. But I am actually going through exactly this, right now. I just got off a Zoom call, with our designer, because the first batch of test users couldn’t figure out that there are action buttons. Many designers want users to admire the UX; not use it.