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Also known as: video swiper, card swiper, social videos

Description

A multi-purpose block that displays multiple cards/panels in a swiper. Can showcase videos, text, and/or images.

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Follow our general Web Copy General Guidelines in addition to the following:

For text/image cards

• Badges (optional)
  • Small navigational buttons displayed above the cards that feature a word or two to indicate the topic of each card in the swiper
  • Character limit: 1-2 words, 30 characters for each badge
  • Image Added

• Cards must have similar amounts of copy
• Images are optional, but if one card has a photo, they all need to have a photo
• Card title (recommended)
  • If using badges, the card title should match or contain the badge copy for continuity
• Card content
  • Ideal length is one or two short phrases or 3-4 bullet points
  • For data tables, limit number of rows to ~10
• Card button/link (optional)
  • Link text should be specific to each topic/card

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• Videos must be uploaded to YouTube and captioned accurately. Share the YT link with the web developer when ready.
• Badges (optional)
  • Small navigational buttons displayed above the videos that feature a word or two to indicate the topic of each video in the swiper
  • Character limit: 30 characters

Traditional Videos (landscape)

• Video title (required for all videos)
  • Character limit: 30 characters
  • Recommend matching (or shortening) the title of the video on Youtube
• When you want the video to appear next to some copy
  • Card title (required)
    • If using badges, the card title should match or contain the badge copy for continuity
  • Card content (optional)
    • Ideal length is one or two short phrases or 3-4 bullet points
    • Give users a few highlights from the video
  • Card button/link (optional)

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• These are typically Instagram Reels uploaded as Shorts to our YouTube channel.
• Need 3 or more videos for this layout. 
• Note that we cannot show a mix of content (e.g. we can't show a YT Short next to a photo with some copy)
• Video title (required for all videos)
  • Character limit: 30 characters
  • Recommend matching (or shortening) the title of the video on Youtube. Can move subjects name subject's name to the bottom text for length 
• Bottom text (optional)
  • Character limit: 30 characters
  • Used to display name, grad. year, major, or other details about the video's subject(s)

Design Assets Needed

Images

Card image (optional)

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• We can use the cover image from YT or upload a different one to override it
• Cover image override - jpeg
  • Face should not be perfectly centered, as it will be covered by the play button. We recommend cropping so the face is in the top third of the image.
  • For traditional, landscape videos
    • Dimensions: 1176x662px
    • Aspect ratio: 16:9
  • For vertical, social videos
    
    • Dimensions: 1170x1807px or 585x904px
    • Aspect ratio: 9:16

Variations

Columns

• Choose to display 1, 2, 3, or 4 columns for desktop

Badges

• Available for single column layout only
• For mobile, badges can be listed out or collapsed into a dropdown

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Text/image

• Display or hide card shadow

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Video options

Video player type

• Embed video on the page or have it open in a modal (popup window)
  
  • Embedded video - use when a video is displayed large or for social videos
    • Example: Student Experiences on BBA Majors
  • Video modal - use when overflow layout is selected, when you want the video watching experience to have more impact, or when the video is better viewed full screen
    • Example: Alumni videos on Companies & Recruiters

Video layout options

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Implementation

Dev Notes

• The block displays swiper arrows and creates swiping functionality when the content requires it. 
• Click and drag swiping is disabled for video content on desktop.

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• Includes standard block footer fields
  • Footer content
  • Footer CTAs

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