Personally, I took the article as a warning against the common pitfalls of basic UI design. I felt that it covered several ui issues that are very prevalent in

Personally, I took the article as a warning against the common pitfalls of basic UI design. I felt that it covered several ui issues that are very prevalent in programs today (the excessive use of dialog boxes really hit it home for me) and that the author was simply pointing these issues out and giving a designer's perspective on them to help programmers avoid them. Not all of us (programmers) get guidance in UI design so I definitely see where he is coming from.