user-hostile
adjEtymology From user + hostile, influenced by user-friendly.
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Difficult to use, especially for an untrained user.
- Usability is not a quality that can be spread out to cover a poor design like a thick layer of peanut butter, so a user-hostile interface does not get user-friendly even by the addition of a brilliant help system.1994, Jakob Nielsen, Usability Engineering:
- If you've had some experience using JavaScript and HTML, then you know that JavaScript can be used to make an interface much more user-friendly (even though it can also be used to create user-hostile features, even ones that crash the browser).2002, Mark Pearrow, The Wireless Web Usability Handbook:
- Antonyms
- user-friendly