I’m thrilled that Paul Boag selected my Sliders Suck article to discuss on the popular Boagworld podcast. However, he and Marcus (his co-host) completely disagreed with me, and went on adamantly about how wrong my post was 🙂
I find this very exciting, because it’s an opportunity for me to further define my points about sliders and to show them where they were misguided in how they perceived what I was trying to say. In fact, a lot of people were a bit misguided from that post. It seems many people read the top half, but not much into the part where I discuss how sliders can sometimes be effective. But I’ll get more into that with the full follow-up.
So, go listen to the podcast (my section starts around 30 minutes in) – even if not for them talking about me, but because it’s a great podcast – and then be ready for my “rebuttal” to come soon.
Sliders do (almost always) suck, and we’re all guilty.
I saw this on the webdev list today — http://conversionxl.com/dont-use-automatic-image-sliders-or-carousels-ignore-the-fad/ — so maybe the message is catching on.
Design by committee never fails to fail — and be unanimous about things like “we need a slider,” so it’s just way too easy to go along with.