Choosing a challenging title like this in a blog where my eyes hurt from reading the font, is, well, risky. I'm no designer, and my eyes literally hurt, or to say it in other words, I'm not talking about taste here, but usability.
This article implies that programming is not design.. of which i take offense.
Why? Making something look good and usable is quite different from writing interfaces and structuring code. Programming not being design doesn't necessarily mean that programming and design can not have some kind of common skill set.
Programming is as much designing as building a house is decorating it.