Karen Au's COGS 121 Blog: HCI Programming

Monday, April 17, 2006

Website Redesign

Currently, I am working on redesigning Dr. Kirsh's website at http://davidkirsh.com. The information architecture, graphic design, and layout is quite poor, but hopefully I will be able to organize the information more adequately. The transformation process (but far from final version) can be seen at http://karenau.net/kirshsite.

Google calendar is out!
Overall, it is very useful for collaboration and group meetings. However, I have struggled with a few flaws in the functionality:
  • Unable to incorporate my calendars into gmail
  • Does not conglomerate all calendars into a single calendar when shared with others
  • Unable to delete calendars, sort, or reorganize list
I've been hearing some funny comments lately about being afraid to use google calendar primarily because google has the ability to watch what we are doing at every moment. I guess they have been offered a good sum by the government to spy on its citizens. The more and more google programs we use, the more we are entrusting our lives to them, slowly invading our lives and causing dependency in the same way that the internet has. I'm already addicted, so you can only help yourself.

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