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▲ nkrisc 9 hours ago

I used to work for a vehicle listing site, and over and over again when we talked to real users they would tell us how they would make spreadsheets and print out our vehicle pages (and from other sites too) so they could compare everything together on their kitchen table.

We had just completed yet another other redesign and our (React) pages printed completely mangled and users hated it. We regularly got feedback about it.

And yet it was so low priority that me (UX designer) and a developer had to team up and get off the record permission to spend a few days fixing it in CSS alone while our managers covered for us.

When people for whom $29,000 is an enormous expense are purchasing a car, you can bet they are printing stuff and very, very carefully considering their purchase. Primary demographic was not young, tech native people.

▲dofm 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Property search websites too. Boggles my mind that Rightmove can make it possible for you to add notes on a property page but still has a shit print view.

▲nkrisc 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I think we all know the real reason, which I knew at the time as well: if you print the page, you aren’t seeing new ads.