User-obsequious

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user-obsequious


user-obsequious: adj.

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.

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Source: user-obsequious, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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