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> My honest impression was that you must not be very good at what you do if you can make something as basic as reading your site so frustrating.

I felt that it was overly wanky and art-bloated and neglected basic principles of Information Architecture, Usability Heuristics, and Interaction Design.



Who downvoted this? UI/UX are not terms to be bandied around lightly. Just because you can make websites pretty doesn't mean you're an interface designer. There's a difference between graphic design (an appeal to emotion and aesthetics) and interactive design (the science of making interfaces easy and enjoyable to use).




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