Word: clutter
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...night of the show, the clutter backstage has disappeared, the scent of paint faded away. If there had been any chaos the day before, it’s all out of sight and out of mind tonight. As the lights dim and the show begins, Haile takes her place in a black dress for the first act. On the other side of the curtain, the audience waits to see the end product, indifferent to rehearsals and warm-ups: Haile and her cohorts singing in the old Agassiz Theater...
...what's going on? First off, food deflation in 2009 impacted the entire grocery business. However, a strategic shift from Walmart backfired a bit. In order to implement its "Project Impact" plan, which called for less clutter in the aisles and more space given to other product categories like toys and electronics, the store offered a narrower selection of brands and package sizes in its grocery section, which accounted for some 45% of its store space. This move had a two-pronged effect. Some shoppers, faced with a less robust grocery selection from Walmart, decided to make an extra trip...
Instead, the site focuses on presentation, eliminating a lot of the noise on the sides of the screen and cranking up the font like those large print versions of books that your grandparents like. To reduce clutter, Facebook Lite erases many redundancies: For example, in regular Facebook, you can find your upcoming events on your home page, on your profile, and on the ever-present toolbar at the bottom of the browser. Get an invitation? Now there's an additional link to that on your home page. In Facebook Lite, there's just one big events button...
...recently, the restaurant industry had been pushing a federal bill that would require chains with 20 or more restaurants nationwide to post calorie information somewhere near the point of purchase but not on the menu itself. The industry claimed menu postings would be a costly logistical burden and would clutter valuable real estate on the menus. Not surprisingly, chains won't voice the most obvious argument against high-profile calorie counts. "They're concerned that consumers will be turned off by what they see," says Tom Forte, restaurant analyst at the Telsey Advisory Group, a consulting firm...
Artists and nature lovers soon gave way to behavioral psychologists and neuroscientists who employed algorithms and "clutter metrics" - the study of how the eye locates and detects objects - to create increasingly complex designs. The familiar "U.S. Woodland" pattern, which has been taken up by soldiers in Ghana, Zambia, Uganda and Liberia, replaced the "tiger stripe" look of the Vietnam War, while troops during the first Gulf War donned "chocolate chip" or "cookie dough" duds - nicknames outdone only by the "scrambled egg" scheme favored by Egyptian forces. (The mottled black and off-white flecks found on both are meant to mimic...