dumbed down
<jargon> Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified.
Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of
software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight
oil making it smart. This creates friction.
See user-friendly.
(1995-04-14)
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