interaction vs aesthetics or deciding where controls go

I am really angry, a designer is deciding where controls go on aesthetics grounds.

The control in questions retrieves a collection of pages that the website visitor compiles and lets them recall them in one place for review. The button to retrieve said collection is now at the bottom of often long scrolling pages of content. Gah!

As I said earlier, its its a web site with tasks that have to be completed NOT ART! Putting the control at the bottom of a page below the fold of the screen has no justification! If we have designers deciding where things go on artistic grounds and that has precedence over usability whats the point!

One button does not a Monet ruin. work it in to the fracking* design. Makes me really disheartened and back to the adage why the frack is the designer allowed to indulge like this for them selves when 1000's of users lose out.. It will fail user testing, I know it, the project manager knows it yet no ones telling this designer to address it. I hate being put in the position as gate keeper and the big bad usability man coming along to spoil the designers fun.

I know design and user centered design work together. IF you want to design for yourself do print art not applications!!!

Sigh - well at the end of the day I still get paid and i sadly get to say 'I told you so'

*thanks Battlestar Galactica for stopping me swearing..