Should I Use a Carousel? (2013)

by coffeecoderson 6/8/2025, 1:16 AMwith 48 comments

by davidkellison 6/8/2025, 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 burnhamupon 6/8/2025, 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 mdanielon 6/8/2025, 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-m80on 6/15/2025, 12:50 PM

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

Netflix movie selector is a carousel

by ofalkaedon 6/8/2025, 3:08 AM

Makes me nostalgic for figurative carousels.

by Groxxon 6/8/2025, 5:11 AM

Sadly it's now part of CSS.

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

by waltboszon 6/8/2025, 2:19 AM

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