Design versus Usability - it's not a war
A client recently posed a question to me that brought back a thought I've had for a while - occasionally when I talk to designers about what UX people do they are under the misapprehension that we are going to remove all the creativity from their process.
But, for me, UX is quite the opposite. My job is to dig around the subject and give designers and other creative types enough information to better understand the brief and offer enough ideas to kick start their creative thought process.
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