user-hostile

English

Alternative forms

• user hostile

Etymology

From user + hostile, influenced by user-friendly.

Adjective

user-hostile (comparative more user-hostile, superlative most user-hostile)

1. Difficult to use, especially for an untrained user.
   • 1994, Jakob Nielsen, Usability Engineering:

     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.

   • 2002, Mark Pearrow, The Wireless Web Usability Handbook:

     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).

Antonyms

• user-friendly

Anagrams

• southerlies