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>Also at play is the notion that there are people in computer science that fall more into the design disciplines (i.e. HCI, UI, UX people). Right now, we have nothing for these people except double majoring with art/phycology and the occasional HCI class, but this may change soon. There are certainly frontiers in this area yet to be explored!

Whenever I read articles about social network-type sites that are doing UI changes it seems like there's pretty extensive use of data analysis based on A/B testing for different changes that are being made. Wouldn't a practitioner still need solid coding skills and a strong base in statistics?