Carousels

A carousel is message part that allows you to add a mix of images, titles and buttons to a card and include it in a sequence of up to 10 cards. You will have probably seen the carousel layout in ads on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Carousels create media rich sections of content which allow the user to scroll through a selection of options or content, and then use buttons to select what they want to find out more about.

For example, here is a carousel taken from our uniform order flow. You can swipe through the cards to see the selection of uniform items, and then click the button to confirm your choice:

 

Carousel specifications

A carousel can have a maximum of 10 cards. Each card must include title and buttons, or a title or image. The title and the subtitle can have a maximum of 80 characters each. Each card can have a maximum of 3 buttons. A carousel image should have an aspect ratio of 16:9, not be more than 420px wide/125KB in size.

 

Where to use carousels

General navigation

Carousels are often used to contain the main topics and top strands of your conversation which we refer to as the Main Menu. For general navigation buttons and calls to action, we recommend using buttons. If the button text is over the 20 character limit, you can add the text into the title and/or subtitle then add and label the button i.e."Choose" or "Select":

 

Carousels work equally as well, especially for larger menus. You can incorporate longer titles and images also, which are great for menus and submenus.

 

Longer button text

Buttons have a character limit of 20 characters. If this is a limitation in your flow design, we then recommend using a carousel to fully contain all the information you need. Title and subtitles allow you to add 80 characters respectively (so 160 characters in total).

 

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