Bob Sampson asked: > Does anyone have a link to any good R&D on the usage of a "Print Friendly" > link on a website. If it's used at all, if 1% of people click on it, etc. <snip> > I just notice that I see it in a lot of mockups we get from ad companies(the > kids of design companies that don't do many websites), and I just don't put a > "print" link into any of my mockups, since I figure it's a pretty much > useless function. > Wouldn't an "Open in Word" be more useful? Stripping the template out, and > having a nice word doc with the content in it.
I don't have any hard data on web sites to point to, but if I were a bettin' man I'd say providing an action to generate a print-ready format of viewed content is a generally highly desirable feature for many users. Of course, there's the design for sustainability considerations as well, as have been discussed in other threads. For intranets: We recently designed a content-rich employee portal for Campbell Soup Company, and provided a Print/Email/Save... action on every portlet. Selecting the action generates a PDF format of the content in the portlet, which of course is suitable for downloading, printing, and emailing as an attachment. I can't share detailed stats, but I can tell you that Print/Email/Save... is the single most frequently used function on the portal. And there's much anecdotal feedback that user's love this feature. Food for thought. Regards, Paul ~ Paul Eisen Principal User Experience Architect tandemseven ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
