Patent ID: 7827004

Claim:
A method of evaluating a user interface design, comprising: identifying, by at least one processing system, at least one user response metric; collecting, by the at least one processing system, data from user interaction with the user interface design, the collected data corresponding to the at least one user response metric; generating, by the at least one processing system, a value of the at least one user response metric using the collected data; determining, by the at least one processing system, a user response to the user interface design using the at least one user response metric value to evaluate the user interface design, further comprising: partitioning, by the at least one processing system, the data into N partitions, each partition having some amount of the data collected; determining, by the at least one processing system, N values of the user response metric, each value corresponding to a given one of the N partitions and determined using data corresponding to the given partition; determining, by the at least one processing system, a mean based on the N values of the user response metric; determining, by the at least one processing system, a standard error corresponding to the mean; identifying, by the at least one processing system, a predetermined level of confidence; determining, by the at least one processing system, a range of values corresponding to the user response metric based on the mean, the standard error and the predetermined confidence level; and evaluating, by the at least one processing system, whether or not to use the user interface design in an application user interface based on the range of values determined for the user response metric.