There are plenty of uses for snap scrolling and carousels that aren’t rotating hero images.
See something like https://airbnb.com which uses it for categories a’la the App Store. Image galleries, Netflix-type layouts, etc.
See something like https://airbnb.com which uses it for categories a’la the App Store. Image galleries, Netflix-type layouts, etc.
What's the UX benefit here?
I get that mobile apps use horizontal swiping and some websites want to be app-like, but even in apps the only common horiztonal-swipe pattern I see is the Android hidden menus pattern, which is (a) a subject of debate in UX circles and (b) absolutely nothing like horizontally scrolling item selection, which is still a bad idea even in native mobile apps.
The other major example I can think of is Instagram's story circles, which I feel must be intentionally unusable to try and force people to view stories in their full-screen tap-to-advance format.