Carousels & rotating sliders: love them or leave them?

Sliders AKA slideshows are revolving carousels in a website showing products or photos. Often they’re displayed as a banner at the top of the webpage and occupy the full width of the browser window. 

They create a dynamic browsing experience and offer visitors a taste of your brand, your work, or offerings. With Squarespace you can create sliders using Gallery Sections, Summary Blocks and Gallery Blocks. 

While their usage is very popular and they can be helpful to consolidate content so more is visible on one screen, some find them more often distracting than attracting, due to the fact of several messages being delivered at once which can lead to the focus being lost. Deciding if including carousels is the right choice for you will depend on your business, audience, and goals. 

What are your feelings on using sliders and what are some examples where you feel folks have used them intentionally and effectively? Share in the comments below!

There has been plenty of UX research and they found that they never really worked well.

Most people never saw the second slide so if it was important content it may get missed. Still depending on the circumstances they can work well. They do slow down the page load though.

https://medium.com/usabilitygeek/sliders-in-web-design-to-use-or-not-to-use-89487432a7f

Not a big fan of either. I have used them in blog posts but have gone back and changed them to standard slideshows.