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Facebook and Instagram use carousels for their Stories feature. Google uses carousels for News stories and product results. Are they the exception and if so, why? Or are they not aware of the user data?
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…
every executive simply must have their all-important tidbit at the top of the page 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.
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…
If you're not familiar with the term, this image viewer pattern is generally called a lightbox rather than a carousel. I generally don't see the two used interchangeably, but there's similarity to the prev/next controls, of course.
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…
Carousels are effective at being able to tell people in Marketing/Senior Management that their latest idea is on the home page. Use them to put content users will ignore on your home page
It's the UX, managers, marketing people asking for more clicks, ad impressions, user engagement... and you will make a carousel for them each time they'll request.
Facebook and Instagram use carousels for their Stories feature. Google uses carousels for News stories and product results. Are they the exception and if so, why? Or are they not aware of the user data?
1. It's primarily mobile, by far.
2. The story is the only thing on the screen and the entire experience is focused on it.
3. You can hold down the story to prevent it from continuing onto the next one for the duration of your hold.
Use tables to organize information. Make it dense.
When you think you stick 24px padding and it “looks” right to you? Now cut that by 75% to just 6px.
We need one for excessive padding. STOP please. Have a completely separate style sheet for mobile devices where you can use padding for larger touch areas. Use tables to organize information. Make it dense. When you think you stick 24px padding and it “looks” right to you? Now cut that by 75% to just 6px.
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…
On many pages, clicking a thumbnail opens a light box that adds so much margin "for design considerations" that the image ends up actually shrinking. Drives me nuts every time. I think twitter recently fixed this. Only took them a few years to notice, yay!
E.g. testimonials - you got one big testimonials but you also have a dozen more and you don't want to fill up your page with just that.. so you use a carousel.