User Hostile
Adjective · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
Describing a design or behavior that feels needlessly punishing, confusing, or disrespectful to users. In engineering slang, user-hostile choices are often the result of optimizing internal convenience too aggressively.
In plain English: Needlessly unfriendly or frustrating for users.
Example: "The forced weekly reauthentication felt user hostile given that the team had no evidence it materially improved security for this workflow."