It amazes me that in 2009, there are still hundreds of thousands of applications being developed everyday without someone like myself (a user experience designer/specialist) manning the helm from the perspective of the user’s experience with that site or application. This is a great article about “why” you need a user experience role on your project teams. Kudos to the New Jersey Business News for reporting on this and hat tip to Jolilore on Twitter for finding and sharing the link.