Our eyes are invariably drawn to the one crooked picture hung on the wall.
Our attention is drawn to the one voice that is singing off-key in a choir.
The creaking breaks of a bicycle, a leaky faucet, a buggy feature in a program – all of these capture a disproportionate share of our attention. So do unplanned interruptions, unsymmetrical layouts and uneven surfaces.
Order is efficient because chaos grabs a larger share of our mental bandwidth.
Observations 