UI Refinements, Deployment Progress, and Early Testing Prep

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This week our group focused on improving the UI and overall presentation of the project. I contributed UI feedback as we refined the homepage layout and made decisions about colors, backgrounds, and the general look-and-feel. We also deployed the site to GitHub Pages and tested the live link to make sure everything functioned correctly. For the most part, the deployment worked smoothly, but we discovered a handful of tiddlers whose summaries were either missing or cut off. 

Next week our plan is to officially begin the testing phase. We’ll primarily do this by reaching out to peers and gathering input so we can evaluate the reliability of the summaries. We may also start implementing unit tests for some of the core services and potentially work on system-level tests as well. On my end, I’ll continue debugging the issues we found with incomplete or empty summaries and help verify that all three languages remain consistent. I also want to support the deployment process by testing the upcoming GitHub Pages changes and begin collecting screenshots and notes that we can use later for our final presentation.

Our main challenges this week involved time management and the overall complexity of our pipeline. The summarizer runs slowly and behaves differently when using the local LLM compared to the OpenAI API, which makes certain bugs difficult to reproduce consistently. Hardware limitations are part of this issue, which means we may need to adjust or optimize our code to reduce processing time and increase the system's stability. 

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