None of what I wrote contradicts that description of UX. I did not imply that I thought it was laying out a page or painting the picture.
Also I did not mean to imply that I thought that going straight to code was the best approach. But you can honestly do a fair amount of that sketching/wireframing etc. in your head and with verbal descriptions, and then after a one or two iterations of that or actual mockups I think you would gain the most from a real system.
Anyway, based on that description, I will definitely start putting UX design on my resume, because I have already incorporated most of the substantial points made there.
Also, in regards to http://uxdesign.com/ux-defined, I have never in my life had so much smoke blown up my ass in the process of an ostensibly (partially) technical discussion.
I am definitely going to have to start practicing this UX design stuff, in case there is actually something more to learn, and because it looks like people are using a lot of bullshit to justify getting paid a lot more to not have to do the real work/problem solving (coding).