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Definitions by jfkelley

user-hostile design 

The opposite of "user-friendly" design, it defines the likely product of design work that does not include continual involvement of users in the requirements and design process.
The user-hostile design of the user interface for this product resulted from a design attempt by the developers with no style guide and no user-centered design methods.
user-hostile design by jfkelley February 8, 2012

Agilista 

A practitioner of Agile Software Development who is fanatical about hewing to the Agile Manifesto.

Coined by J.F. Kelley for a Keynote Address given to the World Usability Day conference in Dayton, OH, November 2007.

(But was possibly also in use prior to that.)
Hey, if they can call their mission statement a "manifesto", I can call them "Agilistas"!
Agilista by jfkelley September 8, 2010

Went Linear 

To respond by losing one's sense of perspective and becoming agitated in the extreme.

Possibly borrowed from meteorology. A cellular storm "goes linear" when it turns into more of a squall line (or merges with an existing storm) -- i.e., that it's going to turn into a big black line of death. (from stormtrack.org).

I have a sense that there should also be a nuclear physics metaphor, but I don't know it.
My boss went linear when I showed him my expense report.
Went Linear by jfkelley October 12, 2009
A high-severity defect that leaves the system in a very bad state. (noun)

Etymology: a combination of "defect" and the adjective form of a common 4-letter slang word derived from the latin fvccant which, in common parlance means to have been cheated.

Alternate definition: an unlikely condition of having regained ones virginity (but this would probably require a homophonic spelling).
I logged two defects on the layout and a defuct about the server crash.
defuct by jfkelley June 19, 2009

barnacle script 

A stand-alone software module that can be slapped onto an existing application to enhance it's function or performance.

This is typically a JavaScript file that can be linked in a vanilla web page to add -- at load time -- Rich Internet Application (RIA) behaviors to the existing UI controls.

A "pefect" barnacle would be effective without any other changes to the web page code (but would allow incremental additions of attributes to customize the behavior).
I found a smart-table barnacle script we can stick on our web page to make those tables sortable and filterable.

I wrote a calendar barnacle that automatically converts any input box with class="date" to a calendar picker field.
barnacle script by jfkelley June 16, 2009

user-hostile 

A play on the common term "user-friendly", a user-hostile design is one that is, deliberately or accidentally, difficult or cumbersome for the intended user.

Often used derisively to describe the competition.
We intend to improve upon the user-hostile design of your existing sales tool.

Some say that the user-hostile design of the original QWERTY keyboard was an intentional effort to slow typists down so as not to allow them to jam the mechanical parts.
user-hostile by jfkelley June 16, 2009

koyanaskatsi

noun: A Hopi word meaning "life out of balance" or "life that calls for another way of living".

Also a 1982 film film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass (no plot, no dialog, just haunting images and music -- really conveys the point about the spiritually impoverished way that western civilization is living).
I've been working too much, my life is really koyanaskatsi right now.
koyanaskatsi by jfkelley June 16, 2009