What is meant by "busy"?
What is meant by "busy"?
Question
What do web developers mean when they think something will make their site look "busy"?
What gives this feel of busy-ness?
2016/05/29
Accepted Answer
busy - biz -ee:
- Too many unnecessary elements.
- Lack of whitespace.
- Clunky copy.
- Unorganized and inconsistent design.
- Improper treatment of text.
- Too many styles, fonts, colors, or other design elements.
- Lack of focus or purpose.
- When the client wants you to make the logo bigger, add links to all of their quasi-partners in the footer for SEO, have several blinking Flash banners, animated .gif files, autoplayed audio and video, and a picture of their dog Fufu because they think little yappy dogs are cute and will help sell widgets.
- Myspace.
2011/01/06