A Question of Contact

Current Contact Screen

I’m currently reworking a lot of the user interface behind BuyPlayTix. Much of how it was designed was based on just copying “that’s how it’s done”. I’m currently working on making the site accessible through Facebook and from mobile devices and so I’m trying to think about what people need rather than what most web applications provide.

Right now I’m looking at the Contact Page. It’s already gone through one redesign. But currently it’s just a simple table with a pager. Loaded Gun Theory has 102 pages of Contacts. And that’s not the largest number in the database. Is anyone really going to page through 102 pages looking for a specific Contact?

New Contact Screen Mockup

We have Dynamic Mailing Lists that let you narrow down to a list of contacts by criteria. And we have search. I think both of those methods are better way of finding specific contacts.

So do you think there’s any value to still having a table with 1020 rows that you can browse through?