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Slick – Carousel

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Re: Slick – Carousel

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Post by younes0 »

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?

what about this one : https://www.joingrouper.com/

Re: Slick – Carousel

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Post by [deleted] »

captainmuon wrote: post #61
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...

Not everybody is concerned about "conversions". If I'd get to redo the public website of our research institute, I'd add a carousel, because it looks cool and modern, and it allows you to showcase the work of different people without favoring one person by giving them the "best space". And even if you have something to sell, it might be valuable to "wow" your potential customer, and to give them the impression that y…

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Re: Slick – Carousel

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Post by SchizoDuckie »

thekenwheeler wrote: post #40
SchizoDuckie wrote: post #35

It's using jQuery, so no. It'll not be the last one I'll ever need.

Have you ever used a carousel on a site where you didn't use jQuery? Would you prefer the size of this library triples? Do you think any one man has the time to keep up with the kind of event normalization and browser shimming that jQuery provides?

* Yes. * I don't really care * Irrelevant.

Just sayin'. With angular.js you have absolutely no need to include jQuery as well. Therefore, the tagline will probably hold up until jQuery gets overtaken by Angular.

Re: Slick – Carousel

#84

Post by hcarvalhoalves »

I would like to see one implemented as Web Component instead of the usual jQuery-function-with-configuration-options:

    $('.multiple-items').slick({
      infinite: false,
      slidesToShow: 3,
      slidesToScroll: 3
    });
You're always into a world of pain trying to customize these things besides what is available as a configuration option.

Re: Slick – Carousel

#85

Post by callmeed »

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?

It's an easy way to display multiple photographs in a gallery/portfolio. They can be used for the main images or thumbnails.

Re: Slick – Carousel

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Post by 47 »

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...

It depends on what you are using the carousel for.

For example if you are showing let say showing a set of different products, carousel is a bad choice. Because it is dependent on interaction by user or the possibility the user stays on the page long enough for carousal to change image.

But if you are on the product page and viewing different angles of the same product. The bigger the image better the conversion. In this case we have found carousal can help. You still can not use carousal without thumbnails. Thumbnails create 3 times more interaction compared to Carousal. So to summarize for us at Bryght following is true.

Carousal Only Here is the example of product page we are currently experimenting:

http://www.bryght.com/product/854/long-island-brown-leather-...

Re: Slick – Carousel

#88

Post by thekenwheeler »

hcarvalhoalves wrote: post #84

I would like to see one implemented as Web Component instead of the usual jQuery-function-with-configuration-options: $('.multiple-items').slick({ infinite: false, slidesToShow: 3, slidesToScroll: 3 }); You're always into a world of pain trying to customize these things besides what is available as a configuration option.

You mean like using data attributes? Or like a polymer or angular directive? Not sure specifying responsive option sets would be easier.

Re: Slick – Carousel

#89

Post by thekenwheeler »

SchizoDuckie wrote: post #83
thekenwheeler wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever used a carousel on a site where you didn't use jQuery? Would you prefer the size of this library triples? Do you think any one man has the time to keep up with the kind of event normalization and browser shimming that jQuery provides?

* Yes. * I don't really care * Irrelevant. Just sayin'. With angular.js you have absolutely no need to include jQuery as well. Therefore, the tagline will probably hold up until jQuery gets overtaken by Angular.

I'm working on an angular directive

Re: Slick – Carousel

#90

Post by sailfast »

Aside from the great work on the carousel, I'm perhaps more impressed by @thekenwheeler digging into all the comment responses on the page and all the comments on HN (including feature pushes based on comments). Makes me much more inclined to use it given the right use case.
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