He has a good point, but I think the problem is more that developers don't want to take the time to really think through the user experience--they want to jump in and code.
I'm doing "user experience" design this whole week, for a fairly simple project, and it's darned tedious work. But it's worth it in the end.
And, of course, once we start coding, we'll have to modify things as we go, and as we get user feedback...
Yup, my point wasn't at all that there's something wrong with UX design in general or the people doing UX design. It was an observation about myself that I noticed happening a few times. I found myself turning off the "UX part" of my brain and copping out by throwing questions back to our UX guy that I should have been able to do myself. Somehow the distinction of a UX-specific job title and role made me get lazy when it came to designing good software. This was really just a wake-up call to remind myself that good design is (and always should have been) a key part of my job.
I'm doing "user experience" design this whole week, for a fairly simple project, and it's darned tedious work. But it's worth it in the end.
And, of course, once we start coding, we'll have to modify things as we go, and as we get user feedback...