Effort minimization in UI development by reusing existing DGML based UI design for qualitative software development

This paper addresses the methodology for achieving the user interface design reusability of a qualitative software system and effort minimization by applying the inference on the stored design documents. The pictorial design documents are stored in a special format in the form of keyword text [DGML tag based design]. The design document storage mechanism will expose the keywords per design stored. This methodology is having an inference engine. Inference mechanism search for the requirements and find the match for them in the available design repository. A match found will success in reusing it after checking the quality parameters of the found design module in the result set. DGML notations produces qualitative designs which helps in minimizing the efforts of software development life cycle. KeywordsUser interface design, Reusable user interface, User interface design engineering, Qualitative user interface design repre-sentation, Qualitative design, Design inference, Effort minimi-zation in UI development.