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https://swiperjs.com/ Is probably one of the best out there.
A lot of our clients are obsessed with what content is "above the fold". Never mind that "that fold" doesn't really exist on the web given different screen sizes, and never mind that users are more likely to scroll down than click slides. Every executive simply must have their all-important tidbit at the top of the page.
A carousel is a way to solve this perceived problem. As long as no one actually needs to see the content anyway, they at least aren't actively detrimental to the overall user experience.
Would love to know these stats adjusted for age. I would expect anyone younger than 35 to know how to interact with a carousel. And some content like a resort's home page with a gallery of images / things to do isn't bad for a carousel. CMV
Interesting viewpoint, as a middle manager in my company requested a carousel specifically for content aimed at older users. She said that younger people don't need the carousel because they know how to scroll.
Clever move to make the slide transition timeout juuust a tad too fast to read, further driving home the point that carousels are a shit way to present information.
They're either too long, and the user gets bored or confused, or they're too short and the program bucks the user off and runs on without them.
"Skip" buttons don't work. If you can have a Skip button, just make it a Next button and kill the timer.
I work at a design agency. Most of my coworkers have seen this site before, and generally agree with it. But we still propose designs with carousels to clients. A lot of our clients are obsessed with what content is "above the fold". Never mind that "that fold" doesn't really exist on the web given different screen sizes, and never mind that users are more likely to scroll down than click slides. Every executive simp…
I run into this with the healthcare web sites I build, especially in the age of COVID. Every middle manager thinks that whatever they're doing is the most important thing that's ever happened.
It's very hard to make them understand that when everything looks urgent, nothing looks urgent.
Clever move to make the slide transition timeout juuust a tad too fast to read, further driving home the point that carousels are a shit way to present information.
Clever move to make the slide transition timeout juuust a tad too fast to read, further driving home the point that carousels are a shit way to present information.
I'm not sure if that was a design decision or just a natural artifact of using a carousel. They have a natural uncanny ability to rotate precisely when you don't want them to.
That, in combination with the inevitable gimme-your-email and some other gate between me and whatever I tried to view is usually enough to make me leave the site and wish I could tag sites in my browser as "do not activate links to".
Google's first search result gave me Amazon, eBay, Walmart Target, Etsy, Best Buy, Macys, The Home Depot,Wish and Craigslist. Only four don't have a carousel: Target,Etsy, Macys and Craigslist.
Lot's of cherry picking. The 1% nd.edu stat ignores the 8% clicks a similar carousel was getting on a different ND web property. For giggles, here's the home page at the time : https://web.archive.org/web/20121214022552/www.nd.edu/
- The Neilson Norman Group sample size was ONE.
- If you read the all of the Weilder Fuller comment, he says "Now, I’ll preface the remarks below by saying that there are some excellent uses for a rotating gallery. "
- https://www.accessibilityoz.com/ - accessibility specialists have a carousel on their home page.
The Adam Fellows quote isn't from the page that's linked. It's from https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/10312/are-carousels-e... where he also says "“Of course in some situations a carousel is exactly the right means to deliver content and so we need to try and importantly test every situation.”
Carousels are the type of UI pattern that is only okay if you ask for it. Amazon is a good example of a carousel done right. If I want to see the full-sized images which are part of a customer's product review, I click on the thumbnail representing these images, with the expectation that some larger, more obvious version of the images will be made available. Once a carousel appears in an overlay, it's not disturbing…