UI Design System Using Weighted Usability Parameters
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional user interface design for applications often lacks consistency in user experience due to varying designer expertise, leading to inefficiencies in usability and increased costs from re-designing and re-testing, especially in complex applications.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for designing user interfaces that utilize a pre-configured UI design model with pre-defined user experience parameters and a questionnaire to quantify the relative importance of each parameter, providing a standardized approach for designers to ensure uniform usability and reduce the time and resources required for UI design.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If conventional user interface design methods are used with varying designer expertise, then design flexibility and creativity are maintained, but user experience consistency and usability quality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms subjective UI design qualities into objective measurable parameters (e.g., response time, task completion rate, error rate). By quantifying user experience parameters, the system enables consistent measurement and comparison across different designs and designers, resolving the contradiction between design flexibility and usability consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the manual, experience-based UI design evaluation process with an automated system that uses questionnaires, algorithms, and computational models. This substitution of mechanical human judgment with an automated computing system ensures consistent application of usability criteria while maintaining design quality.
2Reliability
If extensive testing and re-designing are performed to improve UI usability, then user experience quality is enhanced, but development time and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs usability evaluation and identifies improvements during the design phase itself, rather than waiting for post-development testing. By conducting preliminary usability assessments using the defined parameters and algorithms, the system detects and corrects usability issues before final implementation, reducing the need for time-consuming re-design cycles.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements continuous feedback loops where usability parameters are measured, analyzed, and used to guide design improvements. The systematic collection and analysis of usability data provides actionable feedback that directs design iterations toward optimal usability, reducing trial-and-error cycles and accelerating the design process.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple designers work on UI design with different expertise levels, then design creativity and perspective diversity are maintained, but design consistency and standardization deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal usability evaluation framework that can be applied by designers of any expertise level. The standardized parameters, questionnaires, and algorithms serve as a common language and methodology that all designers use, ensuring consistent evaluation criteria while allowing individual designers to contribute their unique perspectives and creativity within the standardized framework.
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AI summary
A method for designing a user interface (UI) for an application includes receiving, from a user, a first response comprising user selected first answers and a second response comprising user selected second answers, to pre-defined questions. The method includes assigning significance to interface (STI) weightage to each user selected first answer with respect to pre-defined user experience parameters and assigning a significance to business (STB) weightage to each user selected second answer. Also, the method includes computing total actual effective weightage for each pre-defined user experience parameter based on STI weightages of user selected first answers and STB weightages of user selected second answers. The method further includes calculating total maximum effective weightage for each pre-defined user experience parameter based on maximum STI weightage and maximum STB weightage for each pre-defined question. Furthermore, the method includes determining applicability index for each pre-defined user experience parameter for designing the UI.