Carousels are shit. Auto-animating carousels are really shit. Now proven with science!
I’ve never been a fan of carousels on websites, to put it mildy. It seems I am not alone. And if you doubt the data, ask yourself this: when was the last time you, as a user, interacted with a carousel on any website?
What an excellent personal website!
A good ol’ rant by Vasilis on our design tools for the web.
If you haven’t seen it yet, the new redesign of WebPageTest is lovely!
I’ve been having some really interesting chats with Brian about tabs, markup, progressive enhancement and accessibility. Here’s a braindump of his current thinking which is well worth perusing.
The only way to win is not to play.
Trying to get the balance right between discoverability and intrusiveness.