The FTC should create a set of guidelines named for example "Good Software Design Practices" (either directly or through an industry standards body) which developers can follow voluntarily. Companies or bodies should then be able to rate software objectively based on the GSDP using a lay-public friendly star rating. The rating could be further broken up into sub-ratings for specific design sub-topics.

This could then become a default way for companies to self-appraise their software on distribution platforms. Anyone including distribution platforms should be able to validate such ratings based on certain objective criteria.