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It looks nice. It doesn't work very well, not for me at least. I hope they do a lot of work before making this version the default one. Why does the search box

It looks nice. It doesn't work very well, not for me at least. I hope they do a lot of work before making this version the default one. Why does the search box search Google+ instead of my contacts? I don't even use Google+. This is either a huge bug, or it is insanity. And I thought the Google+ creep was over already. (I can't even use Ctrl-F, because they hooked that to the - currently useless - search box.) Every contact manager that I have ever used gives me the option to sort contacts by last name. I can't seem to find such a setting here. There are futher sorting issues: Ö should go after O, not Z. The overview looks nice and clean. When I click a contact with lots of details, and when I click the Edit button, there is just one unstructured mess of a table, crammed into a tiny modal dialog on my 2560x1440 monitor. Compare this to the old Contacts, and you feel inclined to believe that they fired all their information designers, and replaced them with interaction designers exclusively. Please don't read this as a criticism of Material Design. I really enjoy it on my Nexus, and I think Material enables elegant interactions. But interactions aren't everything. For a product like this, thoughtful information design should be the priority. And I don't even see traces of information design in this preview.

ccozan 12y ago
I second the oppinion on Google+. I have a pretty large number of G+ 'contacts', some in circles that are completly muted. I cannot search now thru my old telephone contacts, I get hundert of hits from some random guys which are in some google circles. EDIT. I see now that the non-G+ people are coming at the top.
froskur 12y ago
> There are futher sorting issues: Ö should go after O, not Z. I'd just like to point out that this is not true in the two alphabets that I'm familiar with that use Ö, Icelandic and Swedish. For both of these, Ö is the last character of the alphabet. I don't know how it is for other languages which use Ö but at least for these two the sorting is correct.

ccozan 12y ago

I second the oppinion on Google+. I have a pretty large number of G+ 'contacts', some in circles that are completly muted. I cannot search now thru my old telephone contacts, I get hundert of hits from some random guys which are in some google circles. EDIT. I see now that the non-G+ people are coming at the top.

froskur 12y ago

> There are futher sorting issues: Ö should go after O, not Z. I'd just like to point out that this is not true in the two alphabets that I'm familiar with that use Ö, Icelandic and Swedish. For both of these, Ö is the last character of the alphabet. I don't know how it is for other languages which use Ö but at least for these two the sorting is correct.