She clarified that in her subsequent article. It was the result of Ben Shneiderman's and his students' controlled empirical studies, not whimsy or arbitrary "cr

She clarified that in her subsequent article. It was the result of Ben Shneiderman's and his students' controlled empirical studies, not whimsy or arbitrary "creative" design (which we suffer from so much these days). Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/why-are-hyperlinks-blue-revisited/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/why-are-hyperli...