UX trumps UI (and I can prove it)

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In summation this article seems to say that product experience and a functional tuftian interface outweighs the need for UI by highlighting products like VIM and Google AdWords. If you're making this case I don't understand why you would use "power user" products as an example over an ATM machine; something the average consumer uses on a daily basis.

ATMs are a good example of where a strong experience proves motivating enough to overcome a pretty tragic UI! Another one that springs to mind is driving.

That's not the summation of the article, though ;) the summation of the article, I would say, is that UX is so important we need to define it properly; it also proposes a definition that's somewhat different from the post that originally inspired this one.

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