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Implementing the back end took an unexpectedly long amount of time.  As a result, many of the front end features that we would have liked to include were not implemented.  For example, we do not have multiple accounts in our application and we do not have a visual representation of the number of days that a user wants to be reminded before a deadline.  Additionally, we wanted to make the individual day squares clickable so that an event can be edited without navigating to the right hand side of the page.

Additionally, the database that we used seemed quite slow.  This created a feedback issue, since users thought that the application was broken because their actions did not cause a visibly changed state fast enough.

Evaluation

To conduct random user tests, we sat in a public lounge on MIT's campus and asked passersby for volunteers.  Unfortunately, these users came only from the academic subset of our user base, but were from different enough backgrounds to experience a variety of difficulties.  We tested one Course 3 junior with an admitted dislike of computers and two freshman.  Of the three users, all had previous experience with Google Calendars.  One of the freshman also used iCal and the other used the calendar application built into her iPhone.  We would have liked to have tested some users without Google Calendar experience, but were not lucky enough to find one.

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