Websites that satisfy users: A theoretical framework for web user interface design and evaluation

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1999

Publication Title

32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volume

2

First page number:

2016

Last page number:

2025

Abstract

With the fast development and increasing use of the World Wide Web as both an information seeking and an electronic commerce tool, web usability studies grow in importance. While web designers have largely focused on functional aspects of websites, there has been little systematic attention to (1) the motivational issues of web user interface design or (2) a theoretically driven approach to web user satisfaction studies. The objective of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework and foundation for systematically investigating features in the web environment that contribute to user satisfaction with a web interface. This research uses Herzberg’s [1] motivation-hygiene theory to guide the identification of these features. Among the implications and contributions of this research are the identification of web design features that may maximize the likelihood of user satisfaction and return visits to the web site.

Keywords

Web site development; Web sites—Design

Disciplines

Communication Technology and New Media | Library and Information Science

Language

English

Comments

Silvia Barcellos a.k.a. Silvia B. Southwick

Permissions

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Publisher Citation

Zhang, P., Small, R. V., & Barcellos, S. (1999). Websites that satisfy users: A theoretical framework for web user interface design and evaluation. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2, 2016-2025.

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