Amnon - At least you can try to use it -- * I can't! * None of my contacts show up in the list. I can mouse over what I guess might be the rows where the names exist - but the names don't appear. When you can't even read the names of your contacts because they don't exist, there is a real problem with the UI.
Can't tell who did the UI, but it must have been someone at Google. I doubt they outsource any of their UI designs. On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Amnon Dekel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a long time fan of GMAIL and Google's keep it simple and clean UI > philosophy. Unfortunately the new contact manager seems to have not been > designed by Google. I have had a really frustrating experience in creating > a > contact group with 20 emails of my students, none of which are existing > contacts. With the old UI I just create a new group and past all the > addresses into the entry field and voila- new group created. With the new > UI > I have the choice of creating a contact for each of the 20 emails (no > way!) > and then add them to the group, or I can create a CVS file and import it. > I > tried the second option but the contact manager would not eat it and gave > me > an error on it each time. Even if it had accepted it- it wouldn't have > mattered since gmail needs to cater to normal users, not users who can > create CVS files by hand. > > So my solution was simple but annoying: I switched back to the OLD UI, > created the contact group and then switched back to the NEW UI, praying > that > all the new features that I love (i.e. label coloring etc) would not get > ruined in the process- luckilly the process succeeded. > > So- the point- the new Gmail contact manager suffers from a badly executed > UI design- apart from the problem I described it has additional UI > problems > which I will not add to this already too long post. > > I hope the GMAIL team which has done such a wonderful job in creating the > best web based email today (in my opinion) gets back to basics and fixes > this as soon as possible. If anyone here knows anyone from the team I > would > appreciate it if they could forward this email to them. Looking through > the > Gmail forum I see that I am not the first one frustrated with this and > hope > they fix it. > > -- > :::........::::...::......:::....::::...::............::::: > Amnon Dekel > Cell: +972 54 813-8160 > :::........::::...::......:::....::::...::............::::: > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- ~ will "No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it." Alan Cooper - "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" ------------------------------------------------------- will evans user experience architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
