# Carousel — Design system

A carousel is a slideshow component that displays content one slide at a time. Users can alternate content through manual navigation or waiting for automatic transition.

Source: https://www.checklist.design/design-system/carousel

## Items

### Ways of interaction
Defining whether the carousel transitions are auto-play, navigated by controls, or both

### Visual progress indicator
Show dots, numbers, or a progress bar so users know how many slides there are and which one they're currently viewing.

_Tip: Make the current slide's indicator look noticeably different so people can track their position at a glance._

### Dimensions and alignment
The size of the items in the carousel, and their responsiveness across devices.

_Tip: Decide how content sits inside the item container so that it is filling the required space without being stretched or not looking uniform._

### Animation behaviour
The direction, speed and feeling of how the items transition between each other.

### Focused item state
if your carousel shows one item a time, the one on focus should appear different to the items that are entering and exiting

_Tip: Size, transparency and colour are typical properties to change on the non-focused items to allow the focused have more attention naturally_

## License for the Checklist Design collection

Checklist Design collection: https://github.com/Checklist-Design/skills
Snapshot: bfae71e507b1b7c03c12e0756402b60eb80f5d14 · Imported: 2026-11-12
Republished under the MIT License. Original checklist text belongs to Checklist Design.

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