Slideshow UX Frustrations

Users complain about confusing navigation, lack of obvious controls, fast auto-advance, and poor discoverability of a slideshow or carousel interface on a website, often mistaking it for a broken page.

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Sample Comments

bemmu Jul 28, 2015 View on HN

Was confused at first. This is a slideshow and on bottom right there's a button to go to the next slide.

strager Jul 10, 2011 View on HN

It took me a while to figure out this was a slideshow, and that only part of the page is clickable. (Plus, keyboard keys do nothing.)

kybernetyk Oct 13, 2013 View on HN

Ok, I think I'm lost in UX nirvana. I only see the first slide (I assume it's a slide show?) and neither clicking it nor pressing space/left/right keys advances the slide show.Anyone a hint how to use this page?

StavrosK Jul 23, 2013 View on HN

The interface is so frustrating! I just want to view a slideshow of photos, but your carousel on the main page keeps leading to new pages!That said, this is a pretty cool project, and a nice idea as well.

cbs Jan 3, 2012 View on HN

I had the same problem too. I had no idea it was supposed to be a slide show, then once I gave my browser as much screen real estate as the site wanted I had to figure out how to navigate the damn thing.Whats so wrong with just sticking a bunch of static slides on a page one after another?

bkudria Mar 15, 2011 View on HN

Please please please let me view the top pics in slideshow mode.

pbreit Apr 27, 2015 View on HN

Doesn't seem to work on desktop either. I only see 3 slides.Edit: arrow keys are your friends.

tinco Aug 19, 2014 View on HN

Looks great! one thing, you have a nice carousel going on, and maybe I'm a slow reader but I had to make it go back to the last slide three times before I finished reading it. Consider either making the carousel change slower or better yet, make the story vertical.

tgsovlerkhgsel Dec 24, 2019 View on HN

Once I figured out that it was a slideshow and not a broken page I liked the format. They should have a highly visible arrow to the right though, since scrolling and pressing the down key do nothing.

murtali Jul 10, 2013 View on HN

haha, the carousel is moving to the next slide too fast to read fully -_-'