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GeezerVison is showing en.wiktionary.org — user-friendly - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

See also: userfriendly and user friendly

English

Alternative forms

  • userfriendly, user friendly

Etymology

    From user + friendly.

    Pronunciation

    • Audio (Southern England):(file)

    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)
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