User-hostile

Origin

From user + hostile, influenced by user-friendly

Alternative forms

• user hostile

Full definition of user-hostile

Adjective

1. Difficult to use, especially for an untrained user.
• 1994: Jakob Nielsen, Usability EngineeringUsability 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 the addition of a brilliant help system.
• 2002: Mark Pearrow, The Wireless Web Usability HandbookIf 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