I'm not sure if that's what he meant. A 'focus' on UX is always a good idea. People find encryption scary and a project that makes crypto easy and accessible is important for it's adoption. Of course security is also important, I don't think anyone is suggesting weaker crypto is a good idea.
Truecrypt's UI/UX sucks at the moment. I'd love an alternative. I just discovered the CLI interfaced mentioned in another thread, which I intend to use over their GUI going forward.