Angry fruit salad (origin of quote)

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From: Jakob Nielsen
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1991 16:25

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Who first used the colorful :-) term an "angry fruit salad" to describe user
interfaces with bad use of too many colors?

A citation would of course be great, but I don't think it was formally
published. I recall hearing the metaphor at a fairly recent user interface
conference. Just the name of the speaker will do for my purpose (which is to
give proper credit to the originator).
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Jakob Nielsen, Bellcore MRE-2P370, 445 South St, Morristown, NJ 07962-1910, USA
email nielsen@bellcore.com, tel. +1-201-829-4731, fax +1-201-538-9093

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From: nielsen@bellcore.com (Jakob Nielsen)
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Subject: Angry fruit salad (origin of quote)
Summary: Who said this
Keywords: Color screen design
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