Thoughts about UX, scrolling horizontally, no scrollbar

I’m wondering what would be the best option for horizontal scrolling. Default on MacOS the scrollbars are off. I normally have them on, because I’m tablet user, and needs to have them.

But when not on, I kinda find the UX to be a little confusing. If I have a mouse with scroolbar function, like swipe left and right, I get it to work, but swiping the wrong direction when no more space is left to scroll, I end up on the previous web-page, and that is not the thing I want.

Have a look at the picture, and imagine the scrollbar gone, how would you give the user the clearest way of scrolling. In this example, which is a mockup for a media planning tool. (to finally get rid of separate excel files…) the edge can be quite far away, like a year of planning… so how to tell, how to scroll…

I’m very thankful for every thought of this. :slight_smile:

You have to show the user that there is more information to the left or the right.

In the tour of my app I made those arrow like affordances to show that there is more text when the scrollbar is hidden:

The autohiding scrollbar is one of the stupidest ideas from Apple ever.

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some apps made a mini map to slide a view port.
the question is do the use need the whole year or maybe few month or a week in sight.

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