I have little respect for "artists" who do UI because the job requires little skill.

Sites and exposes like the parent of this entire thread serve to inflate the worth of people who do this stuff.

Painting the mona lisa is talent. Arranging text and pictures with flat colored geometric elements is NOT talent.

The idea that the still life painting is even comparable to some website design is laughable. It takes a lot of skill to be able to create that painting, it takes almost no skill to devise the layout to that site.