I know Firefox isn't the 'hip' browser chrome is these days, but the responsive styles are completely broken in Firefox and IE.
Pretty amateurish.
Slick – Carousel
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#102I 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 use them on my site for each product's outfits, because it was the only way to always see the outfits next to the original products rather than scrolling down and seeing the outfits out of context. I can't think of a better way to achieve this, what do you think? whatgoestiththis.co is the site and click on any product to see.
Re: Slick – Carousel
#103I 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 use them on my site for each product's outfits, because it was the only way to always see the outfits next to the original products rather than scrolling down and seeing the outfits out of context. I can't think of a better way to achieve this, what do you think? whatgoestiththis.co is the site and click on any product to see.
Re: Slick – Carousel
#104I 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...
The maths looks wrong; the distribution of clicks is only relevant if the total number of clicks stays the same. Essentially a carousel gives you a "second-bite" at your customer, i.e. the second image is a chance to convert those customers who haven't already been converted by the first image. Imagine you have two images one which converts at 40% and one which converts at 20% - but each image converts completely dif…
You can get the same set of bites faster and more effectively by simply placing both images directly onto the page. This is why Amazon Kindle and Apple product pages tend to be so tall. People can scroll a lot faster than they can wait for a carousel to go through.
Re: Slick – Carousel
#105I 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...
The maths looks wrong; the distribution of clicks is only relevant if the total number of clicks stays the same. Essentially a carousel gives you a "second-bite" at your customer, i.e. the second image is a chance to convert those customers who haven't already been converted by the first image. Imagine you have two images one which converts at 40% and one which converts at 20% - but each image converts completely dif…
I have A/B tested carousels extensively at my previous job. What I found was that even after a user interacted with the controls, meaning they specifically chose to see subsequent slides, they still clicked the first slide at nearly the same rate as those who never interacted at all (tested with auto slide on and off and variations of the carousels). Intrigued by the finding, I started doing different sorts of the slides (random, most recently added, oldest, etc.) and found no statistical difference. I never had time to figure out why, though, as I took a new position somewhere else. I have a strong suspicion that users see first as most important, though.
Re: Slick – Carousel
#106I know Firefox isn't the 'hip' browser chrome is these days, but the responsive styles are completely broken in Firefox and IE. Pretty amateurish.
Works in my firefox, ie9 & ie8
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#107I know Firefox isn't the 'hip' browser chrome is these days, but the responsive styles are completely broken in Firefox and IE. Pretty amateurish.
Works in my firefox, ie9 & ie8
Make the window small. 'works' isn't the same as 'awkwardly falls off the side of the page when the window is small'.
It's fine on chrome.
(at least, that's what I see on my imac and laptop).
Re: Slick – Carousel
#108I 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 use a carousel to display a list of current games on a fantasy sports website and this script looks better than what we're currently using!
Carousels as a component are useful for a lot more than just homepage slideshows :)
Re: Slick – Carousel
#109> the last carousel you'll ever need
> (requires jQuery 1.7 +)
yeah... no.
if you really want to deliver on that claim then make it a vanilla JS component.
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#110Really Nice work, Thanks for sharing!