ABSTRACT
In recent years, with the development of mobile communication technology and the
continuous increasing of the user applying mobile e-commerce applications, the group
purchase Application (APP) became a new type of business form after the media
integration of the group purchase e-commerce platform. The fierce market competition
and the different audience’s demand put forward higher requirements for group
purchase APP development. Meituan.com,as China's mainstream group purchase
industry leader, firmly occupy the dominant position of the market. Meituan APP
achieve success in the mobile e-commerce platform, which is for all to see.
This article selects the usability of Meituan APP design as the research object,
based on the domestic and international usability theoretical research and empirical
research, and also combining with the theory of consumer behavior, to figure out
specific dimensions, which may affect consumers’ purchase intention, from design
usability factors as interface navigation, appearance design effect, information content
and operation. Take TAM (technology acceptance model) theory research’s thought for
reference and establish U-W (Usability-Want)model and put forward relevant
assumptions. The study collects 305 valid samples through the questionnaire method.
The paper will use SPSS software for data cleansing and check reliability and validity
of the questionnaires. The study will survey the influence of design usability factors
impact on consumers’ purchasing behavior and consumers' perception satisfaction on
the design usability of group purchase APP through describe statistical method like
frequency test and cross analysis. And then explore the degree of group purchase APP’s
design usability impact on consumers’ purchase intention and the various condition of
consumers’ perception on group purchase APP usability from different gender and age.
The results shows that group purchase APP’s UI layout and navigation has a
significant influence on consumer purchase intention; group purchase APP’s design
style and color of user interface and information content has influence on consumer
purchase intention; group purchase APP’s operational effectiveness has no significant
influence on consumer purchase intention. In the perception ‘design style and tone’ and
‘information content’ of Meituan APP, female consumers’ satisfaction is less than male
consumers’.In the perception ‘design style and tone’ and ‘information content’ of
Meituan APP, young consumers’ satisfaction is less than older consumers’.In the
perception "the validity of operation’ of Meituan APP, male consumers’ satisfaction is
less than female consumers’; older consumers’ satisfaction is less than young
consumers’.
This paper through the empirical research on the influence of Meituan APP’s
design usability impact on consumer purchase intention, from the aspects of theoretical
research, this paper analyze the consumer’s differentiation appeal on the design of
group purchase APP integrated with the factors of gender and age, which enrich the
theory research system of usability in the field of mobile e-commerce, especially in
group purchase APP field. From the aspects of practice, if the conclusion if this study
can be generalized to group purchase APP even in the field of mobile commerce