| Main Entry: | angry fruit salad |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | any Web site on which there is a large amount of visually distracting media such as animations, video clips, blinking text, banner advertisements, and sound clips |
| Usage: | computing |
angry fruit salad abuse
A bad visual-interface design that uses too many colours. (This term derives, of course, from the bizarre day-glo colours found in canned fruit salad). Too often one sees similar effects from interface designers using colour window systems such as X; there is a tendency to create displays that are flashy and attention-getting but uncomfortable for long-term use.
[The Jargon File]
(1995-11-24)