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Re: Carousels are bad but....

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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Apr 6, 2017 5:31AM

My observation is that there are different kinds of "bad".

Some things are just bad concepts. I think most of us would likely agree that using placeholder text as a label would be a bad concept. Other things have bad implementations. A carousel is a good concept when used correctly. Unfortunately, we tend to see a lot of bad implementations of carousels.

I think there is also some nuance within those aspects. A concept might be bad for everyone or just bad for some users. An implementation might be a complete disaster or it might only have a single problem.

At least, that seems to be the case based on previous discussions on this list.