User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Prototype for a new article layout/@comment-7862945-20141214085626/@comment-188432-20141214180832

Yannno, 452, I've always enjoyed your comments in threads where we're testing new Wikia features. I think you and I have often been on the same side of the street, both before and after I became a member of staff.

But here I'm not sure I can agree with you. I understand the conclusion you've drawn, and how it could look like an exercise in haggling.

But that's not consonant with my experience of how design works. You don't make up a list of all the things you want, hoping that you'll be able to get 65% of your wish list. Rather, you make your best effort at an holistic, integrated design — after all, it ain't called a cascading style sheet for nothin' —  and then you have people test the design as a whole, and make revisions based upon their comments.

To my mind, that's not cynical haggling. That's practical collaboration.