Today's Web designers are taught to avoid irregularity, but in a hypertext, as in a garden, it is the artful combination of regularity and irregularity that awakens interest and maintains attention.
Rigid design considers irregularity a mistake to be corrected. Each place should behave exactly as expected, each path should be clearly marked, and a few familiar paths should suffice for all.
Today's Web designers are taught to avoid irregularity, but in a hypertext, as in a garden, it is the artful combination of regularity and irregularity that awakens interest and maintains attention.