The article actually makes pretty good suggestions despite coming off as a little arrogant (our design tweaks will make a world of difference, if only the devel

The article actually makes pretty good suggestions despite coming off as a little arrogant (our design tweaks will make a world of difference, if only the developers could understand!). I think the key is to realize that the visual design work comes last. Moving things by a few pixels here or there is not going to make or break your product, because the purpose of your product is to provide some sort of useful functionality and not just to look pretty (presumably). And a lot of times it's completely subjective anyway. Get the approximate layout and user interactions nailed down first, ignoring any superficial flaws. Then, at the very end, I don't think the developer will mind if you ask him or her to make one pass of tweaking a bunch of colors and alignments.