> I've met Designers that were awesome at Designing Stuff, but did not really have any interest in User Experience at all. Those are artists (photoshop pilots,

> I've met Designers that were awesome at Designing Stuff, but did not really have any interest in User Experience at all. Those are artists (photoshop pilots, pixel pushers), not designers. Unfortunately the term is so banalized it lost it's meaning, but strictly: Design (noun): a specification of an object, manifested by an agent, intended to accomplish goals, in a particular environment, using a set of primitive components, satisfying a set of requirements, subject to constraints If it's not solving a problem, it's not a design solution. That includes providing the expected/desired experience to the user, which is often the case.