Contact Search Screen
Component Detail
Description
Main screen for searching contacts and notes, providing a search input field and a filtered results list. Renders ContactCard and PeerMentorCard widgets for matched results, consistent with the contact list view.
search-screen
Summaries
The Contact Search Screen gives coordinators the ability to instantly locate any contact or peer mentor in the system without navigating through lists, directly reducing the time spent on routine lookups during chapter activities. Fast, reliable search is a fundamental usability expectation in modern applications, and its absence creates friction that slows down coordinators during meetings or events. By surfacing both contacts and peer mentors in a unified, familiar card-based view, this screen maintains visual consistency that reduces the learning curve for new coordinators and supports efficient workflows. For an organization managing contacts across multiple chapters, effective search is a daily productivity tool that has a measurable impact on coordinator satisfaction and operational efficiency.
This is a low-complexity UI screen with three dependencies — search-input-field, search-results-list, and contact-search-service — all of which must be completed before integration testing of this screen can begin. Development should be sequenced to build the service layer first, then the sub-components, and finally this screen as the composition layer. The screen's own logic is lightweight: it orchestrates state transitions between loading, empty, error, and results states, and applies debouncing to prevent excessive search calls. Accessibility testing with VoiceOver and JAWS should be included in the QA checklist given the user base.
The screen runs only in the mobile context, so no web or backend work is required. UI review against the ContactCard and PeerMentorCard components should confirm visual consistency before sign-off.
This Flutter screen is a stateful composition of search-input-field and search-results-list, coordinated through the contact-search-service. The onSearchChanged handler must apply debounce logic (recommended 300–500ms) before delegating to the service to avoid excessive queries on every keystroke. State management should cover four distinct UI states: loading (spinner or skeleton), empty (no results found message), error (message via showErrorState), and populated results. The onResultTap handler receives a contactId and should push the appropriate detail route.
The screen renders ContactCard and PeerMentorCard widgets from the results list, meaning result type discrimination must be handled — either via a sealed type or a type field on the search result model. Runs exclusively in the mobile execution context; no platform-specific code beyond standard Flutter is expected.
Responsibilities
- Render search input with accessible label
- Display filtered search results list
- Show empty and loading states
- Trigger debounced search on input change
Interfaces
build(BuildContext)
onSearchChanged(String query)
onResultTap(String contactId)
clearSearch()
showEmptyState()
showLoadingState()
showErrorState(String message)
Relationships
Dependencies (3)
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