Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site The Designer Is Dead, Long Live The Designer! (07 Apr 2004) As long as usability experts disregard the role of attractiveness in user interface design, the Web will not be a better place, nor will it get any prettier. The current state of the Web is downright deplorable. We do not need usability experts aggravating the situation by telling us design and aesthetic quality is trivial. Understanding how designers think and operate will lead to better usability through design. Article URL: http://www.digital-web.com/columns/artofinteraction/the_designer_is_dead.shtml Read 247 more articles from Digital Web sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: The Indirect Authoring Paradigm - Bringing Hypertext into the Web This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy