Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  The Way It’s Supposed to Work (18 Jan 2005) In one of our recent issues, we published an article that produced a design effect that we hadn’t seen on the web. The markup wasn’t ideal in anyone’s mind — certainly not the author’s — but we decided to run it anyway because it felt like a specialized instrument that many of our readers might like to have handy. One of our readers left a comment about his own method of tackling the problem. With that helpful reader’s permission, the article’s original author developed a new technique that married the best points of both before pushing the technique further to see what he could do with it. This is a particularly clear-cut example of the kind of collaboration we strive for, but it’s not unusual. This is the way it’s supposed to work. Article URL: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/wayitssupposedtowork/ Read 144 more articles from A List Apart sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Durability of Usability Guidelines     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy