What the hell is a UX Designer, anyway?

here is a brilliant defenition by Connie Seidel
One who is a user advocate but understands the user's happiness isn't the ultimate goal in and of itself. One who is passionate about good design, but knows when enough is enough and too much is too much. One who can code if necessary to prove a point or concept, but is great at getting brilliant developers to do it for him/her based on a well communicated concept. One who cares enough to go back over the screens yet again... just making sure. One who understands QA and what a truly good, testable requirement is and can write one or teach another how to. One who is just as passionate about business... the needs, the budget, the limitations, the goals, as they are about the user. Like Scott Meier's slide show reference (brilliant Scott, thanks), we're about the sweet spot between the businesses needs and strategy, and the user's needs and goals. I love that spot. I live for that spot. I want to teach everyone that works with me the value of that spot. But I have to be a generalist to do that. And the better generalist and more passionate spokesperson for the user AND the business I become, the closer I feel I come to the grail... the establishment of all of the disciplines, talent, arts, and skills you've all mentioned here, as a true, end to end project life cycle and business and IT culture!