The creator shares his enthusiastic discovery of a web design slider called 'Smooothy,' demonstrating its features on the official website and his own project. He then reveals his embarrassing realization that the slider was made by Federico, an acquaintance he recently met, showing a selfie of them together as proof. He contrasts Smooothy with other sliders, explains why they are important for user experience, and highlights other award-winning sites that use it.
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Embarrassing 😅🤦♂️. I’ve had the Smooothy slider page open in my tabs for weeks. I think Chrome thinks it's my new homepage 😂. Turns out it’s by an incredible chap (Federico) - who I not only met a couple of months ago but have a terrible selfie with! Smooothy is an incredibly smooth WebGL-friendly slider and their site recently won an Awwwards Site of the Day. Here’s why I love it ↓ 🧈 Ridiculously smooth motion - the drag, easing and transition timing are perfect. 🎯 Practical structure - draggable, clickable, keyboard-controllable. It just works. 💡 Cloneable + customisable - I’ve already added it to one of my own builds (with clickable elements + keyboard nav). Finding a truly great slider is hard. Swiper [.js] is solid, GSAP sliders are fun - but this one has a character to it. It’s playful, professional and just feels right. Sliders are important! Definitely check out "smooothy . federic . ooo"! Can you change that pic to your face Federico 👀. #WebDesign #GSAP #WebGL #Slider #InteractionDesign #Awwwards #WebsiteInspiration
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I can't believe I didn't notice. Honestly, it's so embarrassing. I've had this open in my tabs for so long now because I really wanted to experiment with it. This is smoothie, a gorgeous slider. Like, sliders on websites are so important, and they're often quite difficult to get right and it's such a beautiful one and I love all their examples here I love the way they're presenting these examples as well with the controls this one's cool because it uses arrow keys left and right you can go here This one's just really cool. Just a little bit of movement on it is awesome. I even started playing around with my own tier. So this is a website still needs tweaking. But I've got the slider in here rank again, like, it's draggable. I've got clickable elements as well which is super important. It's just really really cool. But honestly what an idiot. I didn't realize I just didn't look. It's by Frederico and I met Frederico only a little while ago. Good, here's our selfies. He's so lovely. He was honestly so so lovely. And I just didn't realize, but I've Yeah. I've been playing around with smoothie sliders in my projects. There's one that you can clone in Webflow here. I must have been like 30 of these clones. I keep cloning it and then Oh, so they won an awards.com site of the day. And as I said, sliders are just so important. Like, the other day we looked at Damso, this really, really innovative and fun e worse website with this, you know, little what is it? Like rank iPhone, sort of thing tier. It's got this lovely clicking sound as well. This actually uses Swiper JS, which is like a really common slider. But it is so important, sliders on websites, because you can hide information. You know, instead of users having to scroll past everything, imagine them having to scroll past every single element that's in this slider here. No. You can just hide it to the right or the best. And then they can, of course, just slide past it if they need to. And if they want the information that's there, it's really easy and accessible. I think this was made particularly because it's good with WebGL, WebGL components, and they work really, really nicely in it. So I might as well highlight that. But it's also used on this awards.com site, which is a lovely site as well. Look at this. Best beautiful. And I think let's press enter here. And I've I've been told it's used on this. And again, just so smooth, so quick. No, yeah, finding a good slider is hard. Swiper JS, very cool. I've seen some GSAT ones, really cool as well. But Smoothie, Smoothie by Frederico, absolutely lovely. Awards.com site of the day from quite a while ago now. Very, very cool. Absolutely love it. Love Frederico as well.
