Consumer feelings and behaviours towards well designed websites

  • Authors:
  • Natalia Vila;Inés Kuster

  • Affiliations:
  • Marketing Department & IDOCAL Research Institute, Univeristy of Valencia, Spain and Dpto Comercializacióón e Investigación de Mercados., Edif. Departamental Facultad de Economia (1e ...;Marketing Department & IDOCAL Research Institute, Univeristy of Valencia, Spain and Dpto Comercializacióón e Investigación de Mercados., Edif. Departamental Facultad de Economia (1e ...

  • Venue:
  • Information and Management
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We analysed the effect of a well designed website in terms of five indicators: purchase intention, positive attitudes, trust, satisfaction and perceived risk. These effects (measured by 21 items) were successfully combined into a single construct using Rasch's Model. The construct was then tested by building a website designed by experts for a fictitious clothes company. It was compared with four less-well-designed websites created by modifying the well designed website by removing one of the four major constructs [web security; customer service; amount and quality of information provided; and usability]. These websites were surfed by 350 consumers (in five subsamples); the experts were then asked to express their perceptions and attitudes of the sites a posteriori. The association between the five websites and the 21 items was displayed visually through a perceptual map built with DYANE software. This showed that a well designed website does not always have the best effect on all 21 items measured.