Carousels! Why are they bad UI?
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How can anyone hate the convenience of an awesome carousel? They're only bad when they are designed improperly.
For example:
1. I really hate when using the carousel, the forward or backward buttons are not instantly intuitive because they thought a cloaking feature of the buttons would be cool.
2. I really hate when I have to step through one by one through a list of tv shows (with a cable remote control) and the one tv show I wanted was at the end of the carousel.
3. It fucking pisses me off when a carousel automatically changes, and shows me something awesome, and I can't get back to that one interesting ad on Facebook.
4. When they slip in an ad in between a slideshow.
5. Stepping through a huge list of songs in iTunes in carousel mode was just silly.
6. I would hate if I couldn't control the size in which images are displayed in a Lightroom carousel.
7. Try printing a page of all the images located in a carousel. Most pages lack the ability to do this.
8. I hate when I cannot save an image within a Flickr carousel. Screen capturing is so painful sometimes.
9. Hate when I cannot use my swiping features of my mouse to move the carousel.
10. How about when a webpage automatically plays music within a carousel, but give you the option to turn it off in case you hate the music. Why did you even put music there to begin with?!