I've been on the anti slider bandwagon for awhile, the article makes some compelling arguments. When it comes to mobile sliding / swiping is a natural user experience. My biggest reason I shy away from them is unflattering photography from clients. You design something that works great with some photography from unsplash for example, and then the design just doesn't work with the clients photography.

Hell I'm more Designer than Dev by far and I wish I could draw, I can make some magic happen in illustrator, but pencil on paper... I'm pretty bad. I know a lot of guys sketch logo ideas and what not first, but I'm better off just starting in illustrator and refining ideas as I go.

Yeah I almost started to tackle that yesterday instead of the animation. I talked myself out of it though and told myself I still have a little more time with bootstrap.

I spent most of my day yesterday learning how to animate SVGs with just CSS. Was quite fun and made a animated banner ad. Learned the basics and put something together in one day.

I haven't used this myself, ran across it here or medium I think. Either way It looks like it might be useful to you. https://www.fontfont.com/how-to-use-ff-chartwell

I feel like this is innovation for the sake of innovation, really it's just confusing. There are some reasons to stay in the box when it comes to UX.

Might try something with three cubes in the same fashion as you have it, but with different heights / colors so that it resembles a bar graph.

Not a fan of the color palette.