User-obsequious
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)
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