Las Vegas effect en · PROPN
Etymology
An allusion to the bright lights of the buildings and casinos in Las Vegas.
Meanings
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A distracting effect on the user resulting from overuse of colour in a user interface.
This helps make a user interface seem somehow friendlier and easier to use. However, this "Las Vegas" effect, as I discussed in Chapter 1, can actually distract users from their tasks.
1994, Theo Mandel, Windows vs. OS/2, the GUI-OOUI War, Van Nostrand Reinhold, →ISBN, page 109:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| the Las Vegas effect | canonical | lexicographic |