[PhasmaFelis]

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

It requires little skill to do it badly, and it's easy to get away with doing it badly. That's not the same thing.

This is like people who read some cheesy superhero comics and declare that comics can't be real literature.

[deltaonefour]

This is where we disagree. It requires little skill to do it well.

Minimal/simple/clean designs are not only simple visually but simple from a intelligence and effort standpoint.

There are many UI designers/programmers but their aren't many Character artists/programmers, 3D artists/programmers, animators/programmers, concept artist/programmers.

The reason is the latter examples are two freaking incredibly hard skills to combine. The former dual skill set is common because UI design is extremely trivial compared to the later skill sets.