user-friendly

See also: userfriendly and user friendly

English

Alternative forms

• userfriendly, user friendly

Etymology

From user + friendly.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

user-friendly (comparative user-friendlier or more user-friendly, superlative user-friendliest or most user-friendly)

1. (chiefly computing) Designed to be easy for an untrained user to use, with intuitive ordering of steps, consistent and logical placement of controls, etc.
   • 1994 May, Gary Turbak, “The Phone Phenomenon”, in The Rotarian, volume 164, number 5, page 31:

     In the past few years, product engineers have infused the basic telephone with lots of high-tech, razzle-dazzle, and user friendly innovations such as speed dialing, automatic redial, speakerphones, cordless phones, hold buttons, and dialing memories.

Synonyms

• ergonomic

Antonyms

• procrustean
• user-hostile
• user-unfriendly

Related terms

• user-friendliness

Translations

designed to be easy to use — see also manageable,‎ amicable

• Albanian: i lehtë për t'u përdorur
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 容易使用的 (róngyì shǐyòng de), 好用 (zh) (hǎoyòng), 人性化 (rénxìnghuà)

• Czech: uživatelsky přívětivý
• Danish: brugervenlig
• Dutch: gebruikersvriendelijk (nl), gebruiksvriendelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: afabla (eo)
• Faroese: nýtsluvinarligur
• Finnish: käyttäjäystävällinen (fi), helppokäyttöinen
• French: convivial (fr), ergonomique (fr)
• German: benutzerfreundlich (de)
• Hebrew: יְדִידוּתִי לַמִּשְׁתַּמֵּשׁ (he) m (yedidutí lamishtamésh)
• Hungarian: felhasználóbarát (hu)
• Icelandic: notendavænn
• Indonesian: ramah pengguna
• Italian: facile da usare
• Japanese: ユーザーフレンドリー (yūzāfurendorī), 使用者の使いやすい (しようしゃのつかいやすい, shiyōsha-no tsukai-yasui)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brukervennlig

  Nynorsk: brukarvenleg, brukarvennleg

• Persian: کاربرپسند (fa) (kârbar-pasand)
• Polish: łatwy w obsłudze
• Portuguese: amigável (pt)
• Russian: (no exact term exists) дру́жественный для по́льзователя (drúžestvennyj dlja pólʹzovatelja), лёгкий в испо́льзовании (ljóxkij v ispólʹzovanii)
• Slovak: užívateľsky prívetivý, užívateľsky príjemný
• Spanish: fácil de usar, fácil para el usuario
• Swedish: användarvänlig (sv)
• Vietnamese: tiện lợi (vi)