Testimonials Grid
Asymmetric testimonial grid: one large featured quote with a headline metric, flanked by two compact quotes, then a second row. Hairline cards, initials avatars, no logos needed.
minimal/section/testimonials-gridSource
import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
export interface TestimonialsGridItem {
quote: string;
name: string;
title: string;
company: string;
}
export interface TestimonialsGridProps {
eyebrow?: string;
title?: string;
featured?: TestimonialsGridItem & { stat: { value: string; label: string } };
testimonials?: TestimonialsGridItem[];
className?: string;
}
const DEFAULT_FEATURED: NonNullable<TestimonialsGridProps["featured"]> = {
quote:
"We replaced three tools and a very long Notion runbook with Tracewise. Our first SEV1 after the switch was resolved in eleven minutes, and nobody had to ask “who's on call?” in Slack.",
name: "Elena Marsh",
title: "VP Engineering",
company: "Northwind Pay",
stat: { value: "−71%", label: "time to acknowledge" },
};
const DEFAULT_TESTIMONIALS: TestimonialsGridItem[] = [
{
quote: "The AI postmortem draft is scarily good. It pulls the timeline from Slack and Datadog and we just fix the wording.",
name: "Ravi Menon",
title: "SRE Lead",
company: "Loomcast",
},
{
quote: "Our status page finally reflects reality without someone remembering to update it at 3 a.m.",
name: "Chloé Bernard",
title: "Head of Support",
company: "Ledgerly",
},
{
quote: "Fair on-call reports ended the “I'm always paged” debate. The data made the rotation obvious.",
name: "Marcus Hale",
title: "Engineering Manager",
company: "Brightpath",
},
{
quote: "Setup took an afternoon. Terraform provider, PagerDuty import, done.",
name: "Yuki Sato",
title: "Platform Engineer",
company: "Kumo Labs",
},
];
function Avatar({ name }: { name: string }) {
const initials = name
.split(" ")
.map((p) => p[0])
.join("")
.slice(0, 2);
return (
<span aria-hidden className="grid size-9 shrink-0 place-items-center rounded-full bg-gradient-to-br from-da-muted to-da-surface-2 text-xs font-medium text-da-muted-fg ring-1 ring-da-border">
{initials}
</span>
);
}
export function TestimonialsGrid({
eyebrow = "Customers",
title = "Trusted by the teams who carry the pager",
featured = DEFAULT_FEATURED,
testimonials = DEFAULT_TESTIMONIALS,
className,
}: TestimonialsGridProps) {
return (
<section className={cn("da-section bg-da-bg text-da-fg", className)} aria-labelledby="testimonials-grid-title">
<div className="da-container">
<p className="font-da-mono text-xs text-da-accent-fg">{eyebrow}</p>
<h2 id="testimonials-grid-title" className="mt-3 max-w-xl text-[clamp(1.875rem,4vw,2.75rem)] leading-[1.1] font-semibold tracking-da-display text-balance">
{title}
</h2>
<div className="mt-14 grid gap-4 lg:grid-cols-5">
<figure className="da-stroke flex flex-col justify-between rounded-da-lg bg-da-surface p-8 text-da-surface-fg shadow-da-md lg:col-span-3">
<blockquote className="text-xl leading-relaxed font-medium tracking-tight text-pretty sm:text-2xl">“{featured.quote}”</blockquote>
<div className="mt-10 flex flex-wrap items-end justify-between gap-6">
<figcaption className="flex items-center gap-3">
<Avatar name={featured.name} />
<span className="text-sm">
<span className="block font-medium">{featured.name}</span>
<span className="text-da-muted-fg">
{featured.title}, {featured.company}
</span>
</span>
</figcaption>
<p className="text-right">
<span className="block text-3xl font-semibold tracking-da-display">{featured.stat.value}</span>
<span className="text-xs text-da-muted-fg">{featured.stat.label}</span>
</p>
</div>
</figure>
<ul className="grid gap-4 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:col-span-2 lg:grid-cols-1">
{testimonials.slice(0, 2).map((t) => (
<li key={t.name}>
<Quote t={t} />
</li>
))}
</ul>
<ul className="grid gap-4 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:col-span-5">
{testimonials.slice(2).map((t) => (
<li key={t.name}>
<Quote t={t} />
</li>
))}
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</section>
);
}
function Quote({ t }: { t: TestimonialsGridItem }) {
return (
<figure className="da-stroke flex h-full flex-col justify-between gap-6 rounded-da-lg bg-da-surface/60 p-6 text-da-surface-fg">
<blockquote className="text-[15px] leading-relaxed text-da-fg/90">“{t.quote}”</blockquote>
<figcaption className="flex items-center gap-3 text-sm">
<Avatar name={t.name} />
<span>
<span className="block font-medium">{t.name}</span>
<span className="text-da-muted-fg">
{t.title}, {t.company}
</span>
</span>
</figcaption>
</figure>
);
}
export default TestimonialsGrid;
modules/minimal/section/testimonials-grid/index.tsx
Props
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| eyebrow | string | "Customers" | Mono label. |
| title | string | — | Section title (h2). |
| featured | TestimonialsGridItem & { stat: { value: string; label: string } } | — | Large quote with a metric. |
| testimonials | TestimonialsGridItem[] | — | { quote, name, title, company }[]; first two go next to the featured quote, the rest below. |
| className | string | — | Classes on the <section>. |
Other testimonials variants in Minimal
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.
Testimonials Case Studies
Three case-study cards led by an oversized mono metric in indigo (−71% pages), a short quote, author and a Read the story link that makes the whole card clickable.
Testimonials Posts
Masonry wall of social-post cards in 1–3 CSS columns: initials avatar, name and handle, post text, date and like count. Hairline cards, centered header.
Testimonials in other art directions
Testimonials Big Quote
Full-bleed blue section showing one giant uppercase quote at a time with a tilted yellow metric card, author row, pressable prev/next buttons and bar-shaped pagination.
Testimonials Logos
Case-study strip: four ruled cells, each with a company wordmark, a giant result number, its label and a one-line quote, alternating solid and paper tones.
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
Stacked deck of glass testimonial cards offset in depth; a ‘Next story’ button sends the top card to the back and the others slide forward, with a live counter.
Testimonials Marquee
Two rows of frosted testimonial cards scrolling infinitely in opposite directions with faded edges, pause on hover, star rating summary above. A static sr-only list carries the content for assistive tech.
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
Slow horizontal ticker of short quotes in large display type, separated by signal dots, between two ink rules; pauses on hover, static and wrapped with reduced motion. Pure CSS.
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
Review-site proof: rating tiles per platform (score + stars + review count), a row of award badges, and two review excerpts.
Testimonials Carousel
Gentle one-at-a-time carousel on a sage band: serif quote cross-fades, round prev/next buttons, leaf-shaped position dots; no autoplay.
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
Wall of pastel sticky notes, slightly rotated with a round periwinkle pin on top, each holding a bold short quote and author; notes straighten on hover.
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
One big quote on a mint block with a giant quote mark, a flat shape avatar, three white stat bubbles and a row of customer wordmarks below.