Slick – Carousel • Hacker News Board

Re: Slick – Carousel

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 3:37 PM UTC

psychometry wrote: post #15

yummyfajitas wrote: post #9

I don't wish to engage in standard HN negativity, but I'd like to suggest that you should probably don't want to use a carousel at all most of the time. From the user's perspective, a carousel is just a random image. You'll get more conversions if you choose the best image instead of a random one. http://www.bayesianwitch.com/blog/2014/carouselsarebadforcon...

I honestly can't think of an instance where a carousel is the best UI element to use, yet everyone requests them. Why?

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Re: Slick – Carousel

#22

Post by thejosh » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 3:40 PM UTC

Looks nicer than bxslider.

Re: Slick – Carousel

#23

Post by kwang88 » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 3:42 PM UTC

This is great. Building in the responsiveness is especially nice -- having to build in that type of support in a third party library is a big pain, so it's great to have that outside of the box.

Re: Slick – Carousel

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Post by coreymgilmore » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 3:42 PM UTC

This is really nice. I have used a few other carousel's before but could never get the multiple-slides-responsive thing to work right. Very cool way to solve that problem.

Re: Slick – Carousel

#25

Post by thekenwheeler » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 3:48 PM UTC

stickydink wrote: post #13

Using my mouse, I tend not to flick like I would on a touch screen. I press down the mouse anywhere in your carousel, and drag it to the side. If the mouse exits the bounds of the carousel, it flicks back to its original position, even if I start completely on the left-hand-side and drag off the right-hand-side. I would want it to move to the next element.

Just pushed a commit for this. You got your wish :)

Re: Slick – Carousel

#26

Post by ollysb » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 3:50 PM UTC

psychometry wrote: post #15

yummyfajitas wrote: post #9

I don't wish to engage in standard HN negativity, but I'd like to suggest that you should probably don't want to use a carousel at all most of the time. From the user's perspective, a carousel is just a random image. You'll get more conversions if you choose the best image instead of a random one. http://www.bayesianwitch.com/blog/2014/carouselsarebadforcon...

I honestly can't think of an instance where a carousel is the best UI element to use, yet everyone requests them. Why?

I think it's safe to say they're pretty useful for artists and photographers to show collections of their work.

Re: Slick – Carousel

#27

Post by onion2k » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 3:53 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #21

psychometry wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I honestly can't think of an instance where a carousel is the best UI element to use, yet everyone requests them. Why?

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I've been designing UIs as a web developer for about 15 years, for many years exclusively in ecommerce, and in every test I've done a product carousel performs worse than a product grid. Users prefer to see all the recommendations at once. Every single time I've seen one implemented it's been a result of a design decision (avoiding long scrolling pages usually) rather than a data-driven UX decision.

Re: Slick – Carousel

#28

Post by actionscripted » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 3:55 PM UTC

psychometry wrote: post #15

yummyfajitas wrote: post #9

I don't wish to engage in standard HN negativity, but I'd like to suggest that you should probably don't want to use a carousel at all most of the time. From the user's perspective, a carousel is just a random image. You'll get more conversions if you choose the best image instead of a random one. http://www.bayesianwitch.com/blog/2014/carouselsarebadforcon...

I honestly can't think of an instance where a carousel is the best UI element to use, yet everyone requests them. Why?

Clients/bosses love them and to them they ARE the best UI element to use. I've had this discussion with hundreds of clients and they just won't budge -- they want a carousel, make it so.

Re: Slick – Carousel

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Post by windsurfer » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 4:01 PM UTC

actionscripted wrote: post #28

psychometry wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I honestly can't think of an instance where a carousel is the best UI element to use, yet everyone requests them. Why?

Clients/bosses love them and to them they ARE the best UI element to use. I've had this discussion with hundreds of clients and they just won't budge -- they want a carousel, make it so.

They are the "best" for the people or companies featured in the carousel, NOT the users of the carousels.

Re: Slick – Carousel

#30

Post by usaphp » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 4:04 PM UTC

What license is it?