Testimonials Carousel
One large quote at a time with initials avatar and role, cross-fading between slides; progress dots, a 01 / 04 counter and round prev/next buttons, arrow-key navigation.
minimal/section/testimonials-carouselSource
"use client";
import { useId, useState } from "react";
import { ArrowLeft, ArrowRight } from "lucide-react";
import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
export interface TestimonialsCarouselItem {
quote: string;
name: string;
title: string;
company: string;
}
export interface TestimonialsCarouselProps {
eyebrow?: string;
items?: TestimonialsCarouselItem[];
className?: string;
}
const DEFAULT_ITEMS: TestimonialsCarouselItem[] = [
{
quote: "We went from 400 pages a week to 60. Tracewise didn’t just route alerts better — it gave our engineers their evenings back.",
name: "Priya Raman",
title: "VP Engineering",
company: "Northwind",
},
{
quote: "The first incident we ran in Tracewise had a clean timeline and a postmortem draft before the call ended. Nobody wants to go back.",
name: "Daniel Okafor",
title: "Staff SRE",
company: "Lumen",
},
{
quote: "Our status page used to lag the outage by twenty minutes. Now it flips before customers tweet about it.",
name: "Hannah Weiss",
title: "Head of Support",
company: "Parcel",
},
{
quote: "Migrating 40 rotations from PagerDuty took one afternoon and one pull request. That’s the whole review.",
name: "Tomás Herrera",
title: "Platform Lead",
company: "Heliograph",
},
];
function initials(name: string) {
return name
.split(" ")
.map((p) => p[0])
.join("")
.slice(0, 2);
}
/** One large quote at a time with prev/next buttons, dot pager and a cross-fade; arrow keys work when focused. */
export function TestimonialsCarousel({ eyebrow = "Customers", items = DEFAULT_ITEMS, className }: TestimonialsCarouselProps) {
const [index, setIndex] = useState(0);
const id = useId();
const count = items.length;
const go = (d: number) => setIndex((i) => (i + d + count) % count);
return (
<section
aria-roledescription="carousel"
aria-label="Customer testimonials"
className={cn("da-section bg-da-bg text-da-fg", className)}
onKeyDown={(e) => {
if (e.key === "ArrowLeft") go(-1);
if (e.key === "ArrowRight") go(1);
}}
>
<div className="da-container">
<div className="mx-auto max-w-3xl">
<p className="font-da-mono text-xs text-da-accent-fg">{eyebrow}</p>
<div className="relative mt-6 grid">
{items.map((t, i) => (
<figure
key={t.name}
id={`${id}-${i}`}
role="group"
aria-roledescription="slide"
aria-label={`${i + 1} of ${count}`}
aria-hidden={i !== index}
inert={i !== index}
className={cn(
"col-start-1 row-start-1 transition-[opacity,translate] duration-(--da-duration-slow) ease-da motion-reduce:transition-none",
i === index ? "translate-y-0 opacity-100" : "pointer-events-none translate-y-2 opacity-0",
)}
>
<blockquote className="text-[clamp(1.5rem,3.2vw,2.25rem)] leading-[1.25] font-medium tracking-da-display text-balance">“{t.quote}”</blockquote>
<figcaption className="mt-8 flex items-center gap-3">
<span aria-hidden className="grid size-10 place-items-center rounded-full bg-da-accent text-sm font-medium text-da-accent-fg">
{initials(t.name)}
</span>
<span className="text-sm">
<span className="block font-medium">{t.name}</span>
<span className="block text-da-muted-fg">
{t.title}, {t.company}
</span>
</span>
</figcaption>
</figure>
))}
</div>
<div className="mt-10 flex items-center justify-between border-t border-da-border pt-6">
<div className="flex gap-1.5" role="group" aria-label="Choose testimonial">
{items.map((t, i) => (
<button
key={t.name}
type="button"
aria-label={`Show testimonial ${i + 1}: ${t.company}`}
aria-current={i === index ? "true" : undefined}
aria-controls={`${id}-${i}`}
onClick={() => setIndex(i)}
className={cn("da-focus da-transition h-1.5 rounded-full", i === index ? "w-6 bg-da-fg" : "w-1.5 bg-da-border-strong hover:bg-da-muted-fg")}
/>
))}
</div>
<div className="flex items-center gap-2">
<p className="mr-2 font-da-mono text-xs text-da-muted-fg tabular-nums" aria-live="polite">
{String(index + 1).padStart(2, "0")} / {String(count).padStart(2, "0")}
</p>
<button
type="button"
onClick={() => go(-1)}
aria-label="Previous testimonial"
className="da-focus da-transition da-stroke grid size-9 place-items-center rounded-full hover:bg-da-muted"
>
<ArrowLeft aria-hidden className="size-4" />
</button>
<button
type="button"
onClick={() => go(1)}
aria-label="Next testimonial"
className="da-focus da-transition da-stroke grid size-9 place-items-center rounded-full hover:bg-da-muted"
>
<ArrowRight aria-hidden className="size-4" />
</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
);
}
export default TestimonialsCarousel;
modules/minimal/section/testimonials-carousel/index.tsx
Props
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| eyebrow | string | — | Mono label. |
| items | { quote, name, title, company }[] | — | Slides. |
| className | string | — | Classes on the section. |
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Testimonials Case Studies
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Testimonials Grid
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Testimonials Posts
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Testimonials in other art directions
Testimonials Big Quote
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Testimonials Logos
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Testimonials Posts
Social-post wall: ruled cards styled like timeline posts (square colored avatar, handle, date, casual copy, reply/repost/like counts) in a 3-column grid with a 'see more' CTA.
Testimonials Wall
Wall of quote cards in alternating solid colors with hard shadows, initials avatars and optional rotated metric stickers ("2× adoption").
Testimonials Deck
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Testimonials Marquee
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Testimonials Masonry
Rating summary pill (stars, 4.9/5, review count) above a masonry wall of glass quote cards with star ratings; one highlight card is filled with the brand gradient.
Testimonials Video
Three video-testimonial glass cards with gradient posters, initials, play button and duration; opening one expands a glass player panel above with headline, quote and author.
Testimonials Grid
Hairline grid of short quotes (gap-px on a border-colored background) — 3 columns desktop, each cell with the quote and mono attribution; no cards, no shadows.
Testimonials List
Testimonials as an editorial ruled list: each row pairs a mono index + name/studio/city on the left with the quote on the right in a larger size; rows separated by hairlines.
Testimonials Marquee
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Testimonials Quote
One oversized pull quote set in the display face with a hanging opening quote mark, mono attribution under a short ink rule; lots of whitespace.
Testimonials Cards
Clean 3-column grid of bordered quote cards with company name header, quote, and initials avatar + role footer divided by a hairline.
Testimonials Case Study
Featured customer story: bordered card split into a company quote (logo wordmark, quote, author) and a tinted column of three big result metrics with a “Read the case study” link.
Testimonials Logos
Row of customer wordmark buttons acting as tabs; selecting one swaps the quote, author and key metric below.
Testimonials Ratings
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Testimonials Carousel
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Testimonials Notes
Kind words as handwritten-feeling notes: slightly tilted paper/sage/clay cards with italic serif quotes and a small “pinned” dot, straightening on hover.
Testimonials Portrait
Single large testimonial: an arch-shaped sage “portrait” with big initials and a leaf, next to a large serif quote, attribution and a clay result chip.
Testimonials Wall
Masonry wall of soft rounded quote cards in mixed tints (CSS columns), each with a small leaf-dot avatar, name and role.
Testimonials Bubbles
Testimonials as a friendly group chat: alternating pastel speech bubbles with round avatars and names inside a big white phone-like card, next to the section title.
Testimonials Notes
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Testimonials Slider
Horizontal slider of pastel testimonial cards with star ratings; round prev/next buttons move one card at a time and pill dots show the position.
Testimonials Spotlight
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