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"Don't use Automatic Image Sliders or Carousels" is good advice, but it misses the heart of the problem: don't design user interface without a purpose. If "what

"Don't use Automatic Image Sliders or Carousels" is good advice, but it misses the heart of the problem: don't design user interface without a purpose. If "what is the purpose and goal of this website?" is the first question you ask when designing a site, you should never end up with "carousel banners!" The image slider is a classic example of user interface being built without being designed around purpose and function. This is a shitty design paradigm that has somehow lasted for years and years, but there will always be trendy things to do that are extended past their original purpose. Start with purpose, then design a user interface that meshes with those goals, and good things will happen.

decklin 14y ago
On the contrary, I think that automatic image carousels are exactly user interface with a purpose. They're what happens when the purpose of the website is to be demonstrated to "stakeholders", the people who sign off on the university budget, the people who don't use the internet and just want to get back to running their restaurant, etc. Normal users would go to the site to use it for the purpose of finding some bit of information; instead, in this case, another person loads it up on their laptop or projector for the stakeholder and talks about "hey, look what we spent your money on". The stakeholder does not actually touch the computer running the web browser. (...that's my theory, anyway.)