I have been trying to persuade my colleagues that viewing, sorting, and searching large lists of data in a grid are less usable than performing those actions on that data in the context where it is used or displayed.
For example, seeing a list of all of your contacts in a grid in a CRM doesn't seem to make as much sense as either searching to find the contact you're interested in, or following links from deals, verticals, activity streams, etc.
I was wondering if there is any formal research on the topic to back this up.
Answer
Grids are great for visual comparison of imagery. Red cars vs. blue cars etc... When comparing or looking for data, grids become very cumbersome as there's not a clear "top to bottom" order to them.
Example: On Pinterest.com, it's less important which order the items on the page are where as on Facebook, a grid doesn't work because feeds are in ascending order.
Hope this helps!
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