user-obsequious

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<jargon> Emphatic form of user-friendly. Connotes a system so verbose, inflexible, and determinedly simple-minded that it is nearly unusable. "Design a system any fool can use and only a fool will want to use it."

See WIMP, Macintrash.

See also user-unctuous. [Jargon File]

(1999-06-27)

The Jargon File

Emphatic form of user-friendly. Connotes a system so verbose, inflexible, and determinedly simple-minded that it is nearly unusable. “Design a system any fool can use and only a fool will want to use it.” See WIMP environment, Macintrash.