user-hostile en · ADJ
Etymology
From user + hostile, influenced by user-friendly.
Meanings
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Difficult to use, especially for an untrained user.
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: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| user hostile | alternative | lexicographic | |
| most user-hostile | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more user-hostile | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |