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Questions tagged [carousel]

Carousels, aka Sliders, are an interactive widget/design pattern used to present multiple featured content items in a limited space.

http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/selection/carousel.html

http://ui-patterns.com/patterns/Carousel

http://www.uipattern.com/carousel-design-examples/

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Using a carousel on home page or not?

I was thinking about the use of carousels in homepages, I have noticed a lot of web pages use and I really don't think they are useful sometimes, however I'm just a developer but I really like to do my homework and I decided to learn a big more…
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Do position dots under a carousel need to be clickable?

It is common convention to make position dots under carousels (as shown on Apple's site below) clickable. My question is: is this convention based in any user research, or any experience of user responding badly to non-clickable dots? I have two…
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Do IT workers interact more with carousels?

I came across a question this morning. I've read many studies which demonstrates that carousel aren't effective at all, mainly because they look like banners and users are blind to them. One of the studies I've read is Banner Blindness by Jakob…
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Mutiple or single hyperlinks within a carousel slide?

Each slide in our new carousel will have: - A text Heading - A text Tagline - An image - An hyperlink(s) This carousel is part of a CMS and will soon become available to content owners and because of this we need to set some limitations so each…
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Is a carousel bad here

I have a carousel with three quotes, it looks fancy but some one informed me that carousel are unnecessary eye candy. would it better if i put the quotes next to each other 1 | 2 | 3 | ?
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Need suggestion on how can i start implementing the attached UI

I am new to building UIs, as a part of a project i was asked to come up with a UI (screenshot attached). Before posting it here, i have done my research and could not find a solution. Please look at the attached screenshot, and need your suggestion…
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How to prevent non-proficient internet users from scrolling past a hero carousel?

If the biggest part of your clients are people who lack internet skills how do you prevent them from ignoring your hero if its a carousel? I'm not even sure if that would be the best approach. Should you approach this problem in a completely…
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