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Should I Use a Carousel? (2013)

by coffeecoders on 6/8/25, 1:16 AM with 48 comments

• by davidkellis on 6/8/25, 2:18 AM

  How 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://youtu.be/LeCKu0HqGFQ?si=xKApVFSqdzLGF0SD

  Modals (being a special case of modes):

  - https://modalzmodalzmodalz.com/

  Modes:

  - https://www.nngroup.com/articles/modes/

  - https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/timed-modes/

  What else?

• by burnhamup on 6/8/25, 1:59 AM

  Point taken. It was really annoying to try to read one of the slides of the carousel because it kept moving.

• by mdaniel on 6/8/25, 3:44 AM

  I 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

• by peter-m80 on 6/15/25, 12:50 PM

  This is not a carousel. It's a slideshow.

  Netflix movie selector is a carousel

• by ofalkaed on 6/8/25, 3:08 AM

  Makes me nostalgic for figurative carousels.

• by Groxx on 6/8/25, 5:11 AM

  Sadly it's now part of CSS.

  Thanks, Google. https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-ac...

• by waltbosz on 6/8/25, 2:19 AM

  I haven't seen carousels lately, seems like the trend has mostly died out.