Technology
visual noise
distracting visual clutter
Visual noise is a collection of things that makes a place or screen look busy and difficult to focus on.
Hear it in real life
Why did you remove those icons?
They added visual noise and made the menu harder to use.
The bright banners create too much visual noise on the website.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: visual noises
Say: visual noise
In this design meaning, "noise" is usually uncountable, so it does not take a plural -s.
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How it fits in a sentence.
create visual noise; reduce visual noise; visual noise on a page
Your turn: say it out loud
The bright banners create too much visual noise on the website.
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visual noise
distracting visual clutter
“The bright banners create too much visual noise on the website.”
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