Ben Richardson builds a carousel:
If you’ve ever tried to cram too many charts onto one report page, you know what happens.
The page gets cluttered, users don’t know where to look, and the story you’re trying to tell gets lost.
Carousel buttons fix that problem.
Instead of stacking visuals side by side:
You place them in the same spot and let people flip through them like slides.
It feels cleaner, takes up less space, and keeps the audience focused.
Click through to see how it works. Note that carousels can be quite useful, but they also go against one of the tenets of dashboard design: glanceability. If I need to click, drag, scroll, or otherwise manipulate the dashboard before I can see the information I need to act, it’s not glanceable—I cannot gather relevant information at a glance and act upon it.
In other words, if I’m giving somebody an interactive Power BI report with the intent that the person will dig into results, then a carousel can be quite reasonable. But if I’m creating a dashboard that should be up most of the time and available for people to see, carousels aren’t a great call.