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Hey everyone, as part of a bigger proposal to improve the design of live data, I would also like to propose some changes to the pagination layout of both LD and LT, to keep them in sync.
For context, I’m talking about these two:
Note: I know that Live Table is on its way out, however I feel it’s important to keep them both as similar as possible until we have migrated everything to LD.
Some problems identified and proposals to improve them:
- Inconsistent Layouts: Live Table (LT) and Live Data (LD) have different visual layouts for tables. Let’s aim for consistency between the two implementations.
- Secondary Placement of Pages: The pages listing is currently secondary in the reading flow. Considering the navigation importance, let’s prioritize the pages within the results info. Of course this would need to be reversed for right-to-left reading flows.
- Complex Results Info: The current format (“Results # - # out of # per page of #”) is hard to interpret. It requires the user to read the whole sentence to make sense of the numbers. Let’s split it into two groups for clarity: one for displayed results and another for results per page.
- Subtle Selected Page: The selected page is indicated with subtle bold text. I suggest increasing contrast by using the primary action color as the background.
- Small Interaction Area: The space for mouse interaction on each page is narrow. Let’s increase padding on page buttons for better spacing and accessibility. Also, enhance hover/focus styles.
All in all, we would get something like this:
The difference between LD and LT would be only the LD action button, on the right:
Live Data:
Live Table
And here we have a more contextualized mockup for these changes using Live Data:
I would like to know from you, what do you think of these changes? Should we really improve LT even if it’ll be eventually upgraded to LD?
Thank you all for reading!