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During the implementation phase, it became clear to us that frameworks are the way to go: someone or some team has done the hard work of designing widgets and thinking about the consistency of them and how they interact together. However, it is still challenging to choose these widgets and compose them together in ways that the user expects and is familiar with.
We also got realized that the user design is a we have to take an iterative approach when doing a user design. Even after two or three iterations of testing, during the evaluation, we received recommendations that would increase the usability of our design. This goes to show that we have to be taking inputs of the users into account throughout the design, implementation, testing, and deployment period of the software.
There are some features of the interface could benefit from like push notifications, multiple rounds of date selection. In the future, these features could be incorporated to make Mashcal the best date selector out there,