Interesting presentation by Stephen Anderson about the inter-twined relationship between usability and visual design. I’ve always agreed with this. Usability and user experience is about people and how they use the site, and whether it’s enjoyable. Most users comprehend and interpret a site through their eyes. Visual design. That’s before anything gets clicked, pulled, or dragged. You can have the best information architecture sitting behind, but any flaws in the visual design can blow the IA to pieces.