User interface design based on visual characteristics determined to mitigate sensitivity deterioration

A method for improving a future user interface (UI) design, the method comprising:

• analyzing, using a processor and a memory of a data processing system, a set of data, a data in a first subset of the set of data including (i) a description of a UI layout that includes a description of a UI element positioned in a first area of a touch-sensitive device, the first area having a first sensitivity to touch, wherein the first sensitivity is below a level of sensitivity, and (ii) a second area of the touch-sensitive device, the second area having a second sensitivity to touch, wherein the second sensitivity is at least equal to the level of sensitivity;
• extracting a first visual characteristic of the UI element, wherein a threshold number of data in the first subset include some UI element with the first visual characteristic, wherein the first visual characteristic includes at least one member selected from a set of (i) a color (ii) and an animation of the UI element;
• determining, for the first area in each data in the first subset, that the first visual characteristic causes a sensitivity to reduce to below the level of sensitivity according to an analysis of screen usage data, wherein the analysis indicates that UI elements with the first visual characteristic were heavily used or touched as a result of the first visual characteristic;
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• constructing, responsive to the determining, an instruction for a UI design tool, the instruction causing the UI design tool to move a UI element in a future UI design from the first area to the second area and replacing use of the first visual characteristic of the UI element with a second visual characteristic in the future UI design according to the analysis of screen usage data, wherein the analysis indicates that UI elements with the second visual characteristic were not as heavily used or touched, as a result of the second visual characteristic, as the UI elements with the first visual characteristic.