QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF USER INTERFACE SOFTWARE DESIGN

Disclosed herein are technologies for quantitative evaluation and optimization of user interface and software design. In one implementation, a design step in a software process is chosen. The software process may be evaluated with different design elements, and time penalties for the different design elements may be determined during the evaluation. A design element of the design step may then be changed to one of the different design elements with the lowest time penalty.