ProbableNamed from the place
Las Vegas effect
noun · first attested 1990s
Interface designers borrowed the Strip as a warning label.
In interface design, the distracting result of using too many colors on one screen.
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Las Vegas effect
The usability writer Theo Mandel used the term in his 1994 book on graphical interfaces, arguing that heavy color makes a screen look friendlier while pulling users off their task. Programmers call the same fault angry fruit salad. The allusion is to the massed neon of the Las Vegas casino strip.
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