The main waste of time in boarding a plane is when a person seating in row 20 for example is waiting behind a person in row 10 or so, unable to start seating or putting away his luggage.If instead of having "from rows 25 to 35" and so on which just garantees that all the passengers in the same zone create a mess, you organized lines of passengers in their seating order from outside the plane, you could board super quickly. You'd say: "passsengers on A seats, and then have attendant order them by seat number. As they board the plane, each takes his row, spends 30 seconds putting up his luggage and then seats. Seats F follow (or whatever the opposite window is), all of them, ordered as they will be seated. and so on.
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There is always the EasyJet solution, no pre-allocated seats at all, you board in the order you checked in. They reckon it is quicker to board the aircraft this way and saves he airline time, everybody goes for the best seats first and the late-comers just have to put up with what's left. No "you're sitting in my seat" problems.
It also encourages people to check in early.
I think you are on the right track. This could be arranged in a number of ways. How about this; You have the chairs in the terminal next to the gate numbered to correspond to the numbering system in the plane. The passengers simply sit in the seat in the terminal which matches their seat number on the plane. The seat numbers in the terminal are carefully arranged so that when they load the plane, everyone just stands up and files on in the order that they are already in. If properly arranged, the order of the passengers will be optimized for maximally efficient loading.
It's a great idea, but you need effective enforcement measures. I once actually boarded a flight like this. The arrival was delayed, and while we were waiting the hostesses lined everyone up in the correct order. It worked great for about 13 rows and then was screwed up by some jerk who sneaked in ahead of his turn and proceeded to fumble around in the aisle with his carry-ons. Because the aisle was backed up behind him, the hostesses couldn't get close enough to tell him to get the hell out of the way, and it ended up being at least as slow if not worse than a regular boarding.