A cognitive bias comprising a tendency to overestimate the likelihood of one's success at a task perceived as difficult, and to underestimate that likelihood at a task perceived as easy.

Synonym of cutaneous rabbit illusion

(graphical user interface) The distracting overuse of colour in a user interface.

A visual illusion wherein a flash and a moving object that appear in the same location are perceived to be displaced from one another.

(psychology) The phenomenon whereby people tend to develop a preference for something merely because they are familiar with it.

(aviation) The phenomenon where an aircraft's radar with limited directional capabilities receives strong echoes from the ground, swamping target signals and generating a triangular radar trace.

plural of effective nuclear charge

(economics) The hypothesis that poorer economies will tend to have faster rates of economic growth than richer ones.

(software engineering) An antipattern in which a system is made so customizable as to become a (poor) replica of the development platform used to create it.

The tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems to be succeeded by overengineered, bloated systems, due to inflated expectations and overconfidence.