Yet somehow carousels still manage to find their way to websites and applications. Add to it small progress dots with tiny tap areas, barely visible labels and a bit of parallax, and you have a quite troublesome design pattern in your hands.
They have plenty of accessibility issues, they often exhibit low click-through rates, can be very disruptive when auto-advancing and people frequently scroll past through them. You can find more examples in “Smart Interface Design Patterns”, a 9h-video course with 100s of hand-picked examples, curated by Vitaly.Ĭarousels don’t have a good reputation, and rightfully so. In this series of articles, we highlight design patterns and techniques to design better interfaces.
