The rotating image carousel seems like an example of idea averaging.
- "What should we put on our homepage?"
- A bunch of people have different ideas.
- "I know, we can put them all up with a carousel!"
Even Apple has succumbed to his, which is perhaps not surprising. Carousels often come out of collaborative cultures (everyone wins!), which has been a point of emphasis for Tim Cook.
Avoiding carousels requires that a single person is willing to make a bunch of colleagues unhappy by picking only one thing at a time to feature.
- "What should we put on our homepage?"
- A bunch of people have different ideas.
- "I know, we can put them all up with a carousel!"
Even Apple has succumbed to his, which is perhaps not surprising. Carousels often come out of collaborative cultures (everyone wins!), which has been a point of emphasis for Tim Cook.
Avoiding carousels requires that a single person is willing to make a bunch of colleagues unhappy by picking only one thing at a time to feature.