Dazzle your screen--the merry-go-round model in mobile products

In the mobile product design, the picture conveys the information to be more straightforward, beautiful, easy to attract the user attention, therefore introduces the massive picture resources in the product also becomes one of the way which the designer likes.

Today we are going to introduce an efficient thumbnail browsing method--the Merry-go-round model (carousel).

1. What is a merry-go-round (carousel) mode?

The Merry-go-round has a long history, in the Western playground often can see, early film film inspiration that is from this, will be a static picture of the rapid rotation projection to the screen, in ancient China also has a similar form-"Happy Lights", in the festival for the People to watch entertainment.

In the interactive design of mobile products, the Merry-go-round model can present multiple images in one entry and guide the user to browse more content through the sliding screen. The advantage of this model is that in a limited screen space, efficient rendering of a large number of image content, bring users a better focus, browsing experience, so that the original still pictures like playing movies as wonderful.

2. Interactive characteristics

1) only part of the content is rendered on the screen

A large number of picture contents are usually displayed in the carousel mode, but there is not too much image in one screen of the mobile phone screen (according to the picture size is generally 3-5 pieces).

2) Guide the user to scroll

A clear visual guide is required to let users know that they can navigate by sliding and that the direction of scrolling is clear. You can provide scroll bars, buttons, or some extra entries on either side of the screen.