i was in a JAD meeting today with some military big wigs going over some requirements and enhancements to the piece of the application i'm working on and somebody used the term "user confuser". it struck me as funny. anybody else heard any geeky terms lately? :D

Argh! I hate technical jargon. What is user confuser anyways?

I've heard of paradigm shift, but that's just a term that business majors use to feel smart. ;)

"User confuser" is new to me. I like it - it's got a nice swing to it. In our shop they get logged as "counter-intuitive" features.

hehe

I think the scale goes:

User Amuser -> User Confuser -> User Abuser

Can you express that in a pie graph?

My favorite business-y term right now is "Administrivia". Usually implemented by the "Office of Change Prevention".

"User Confuser" - Classic. Now if only I did UI work I could implement a few of those myself.

when we have a code freeze we do a build or new version and have a sanity test to test all parts of the application.

I work in the medical field (ophthalmology "eyes") and one of my favorites is
retinitis-ugly-osis which translates to "hard on the ol' peepers..."

RX-GR8, sorry to hijack but do you happen to work for/with the Navy? I'm from Marlton NJ and work over here at the Philadelphia Naval Bussiness center. Just wondering if there's a fellow NAVSEAer here.