Ugly Design Works

"the fact remains, that design and usability do not go hand in hand. In fact, I’d throw out that your usability expert should (if possible) not have any design talent WHATSOEVER (like Jakob Nielsen, Usability Zealot). Designers have too much emotional bias towards pretty things. This seems akin to the rule of having someone on staff who is a dedicated bug tester (who has NOTHING to do with the programming effort)." /GoJobby Blog/