Is there a term for this?

[Joe Weinmunson <litlfrog -at- gmail -dot- com>]

A friend of mine wonders:
"So if you have a list of items on a website, printed document, or other
means of communication, and someone doesn't notice one of them, it seems to
me that moving everything to the top in bold blinking colored fonts, while
it might briefly solve the problem, does so by causing the problem for the
next two times . . . is there a term for what I'm talking about, and is it
a concept in use?"

I certainly know what he's talking about, but I'm an informally trained
lone tech writer. Does anyone have any suggestions?

-- 
Joe Weinmunson

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to
be beautiful.
--William Morris
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