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Should I Use a Carousel? (2013)
- burnhamup 1y agoPoint taken. It was really annoying to try to read one of the slides of the carousel because it kept moving.
- EvanAnderson 1y agoI found it very readable w/ my default Javascript-diasbled configuration. It wasn't until I viewed the page w/o my plugins loaded that I got the message.
- 9d 1y agoPeople who are going to disable JavaScript, are going to disable JavaScript. People who won't, wont. Neither camp needs to proselytize the other, nor is it ever very effective. And bragging about which side you're on is weird.
- kelnos 1y ago"I disable JS" always felt to me like the "I don't own a TV" elitism-brag.
- 9d 1y agoTo be fair, if you're going to just be a genuinely superior person than other people are, you might as well just brag about that superiority since there's nothing else it's useful for.
- mdaniel 1y agoI guess the rest of the sentence is "... if TVs were a fundamental pre-requisite for modern life" > Yeah, bro, I rub two sticks together to cook my own deer meet, because Big Grocery is tracking me
- wredcoll 1y agoThat's an amusing reference, been a while since I've seen one, I assume because computer screens make tvs pointless. I wonder if there's a more current version? Not having a smartphone perhaps?
- EvanAnderson 1y agoClearly I hit a nerve. I was just trying to make the point that w/o Javascript the example kinda fell flat. I didn't think I was bragging, but apparently I was. (I just prefer to turn on Javascript when I need it-- I find a lot of sites a lot less distracting w/o it.)
- davidkellis 1y agoHow many other user interactions are generally considered objectively bad practice? Sure, there may be a time and place, but what is frequently overused? Toasts: - https://maxschmitt.me/posts/toasts-bad-ux https://maxschmitt.me/posts/toasts-bad-ux - https://youtu.be/LeCKu0HqGFQ?si=xKApVFSqdzLGF0SD https://youtu.be/LeCKu0HqGFQ?si=xKApVFSqdzLGF0SD Modals (being a special case of modes): - https://modalzmodalzmodalz.com/ https://modalzmodalzmodalz.com/ Modes: - https://www.nngroup.com/articles/modes/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/modes/ - https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/timed-modes/ https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/timed-modes/ What else?
- lurk2 1y ago>What else? Being anything other than a static page where I get your company’s phone number to call and talk to someone whose first language is my own.
- stirfish 1y ago>talk to someone
- kelnos 1y agoIf a website interaction has to lead me to a phone call in order to get something useful done, that website has completely failed. Ideally I never want to have to pick up my phone at all. Customer support is an exception to that, but only as a last resort: if it gets to the point that I have to call a business, something has gone very very wrong.
- econ 1y agoHaha, customers want to aks unreasonable or insane questions, replace a good process with a bad one and tell you their life story. They might even need to talk with a normal person about normal things. Refusal might be expensive. If you can bring an insane request within the boundaries of possibility they can't help but appreciate it.
- bryanrasmussen 1y ago
- waltbosz 1y agoI haven't seen carousels lately, seems like the trend has mostly died out.
- 9d 1y agoI saw them on websites maybe twice in the past week.
- duskwuff 1y agoScroll-linked effects are the new carousels.
- mdaniel 1y agoI do not possess enough rage to express at the "let me swoosh in content only at the last possible pixel so that you think there's no more content" pages
- cuddlyogre 1y agoEvery one of our client sites have one. It's proving to be a pain, so maybe that will change soon.
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- ofalkaed 1y agoMakes me nostalgic for figurative carousels.
- mdaniel 1y agoI thought for sure this was going to be one of those "isfirefoxfastyet" style sites that was just a <h1>no</h1> but I guess the message is driven further home by hiding the "no" in the 2nd "page" of the carousel
- Groxx 1y agoSadly it's now part of CSS. Thanks, Google. https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html#Carousels https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-ac...
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- peter-m80 1y agoThis is not a carousel. It's a slideshow. Netflix movie selector is a carousel