Testimonials Chat
Customer quotes laid out as a group chat: alternating left (graphite, bordered) and right (secondary pill) message bubbles with tail corners, colored initials, names and roles.
nocturne/section/testimonials-chatSource
import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
export interface TestimonialsChatItem {
quote: string;
name: string;
role: string;
initials: string;
tone?: "primary" | "accent" | "success" | "warning";
}
export interface TestimonialsChatProps {
title?: string;
description?: string;
items?: TestimonialsChatItem[];
className?: string;
}
const TONES = {
primary: "bg-da-primary text-da-primary-fg",
accent: "bg-da-accent text-da-accent-fg",
success: "bg-da-success text-da-success-fg",
warning: "bg-da-warning text-da-warning-fg",
} as const;
const DEFAULT_ITEMS: TestimonialsChatItem[] = [
{ quote: "I stopped digging through Slack. I just ask Nova what we decided and it links me to the exact thread.", name: "Maya Chen", role: "Head of Product, Parcel", initials: "MC", tone: "primary" },
{ quote: "Onboarding a new engineer used to take two weeks of ‘ask Leo’. Now it's a conversation with Nova on day one.", name: "Leo Martins", role: "Staff Engineer, Tidewell", initials: "LM", tone: "accent" },
{ quote: "The release-notes agent writes 90% of our changelog. We just fix the jokes.", name: "Sara Okafor", role: "PM, Brightside", initials: "SO", tone: "success" },
{ quote: "It feels like chatting with the most organized person on the team. Who never sleeps.", name: "Tom Dubois", role: "CEO, Fieldnote", initials: "TD", tone: "warning" },
];
/** Customer quotes laid out as a group chat: alternating left/right message bubbles with colored initials, names and roles. */
export function TestimonialsChat({
title = "Teams talk about Nova the way they talk to it",
description = "A few messages from the people who use it every day.",
items = DEFAULT_ITEMS,
className,
}: TestimonialsChatProps) {
return (
<section className={cn("da-section", className)}>
<div className="da-container">
<div className="mx-auto max-w-2xl text-center">
<h2 className="font-da-display text-3xl font-semibold tracking-da-display text-balance sm:text-4xl">{title}</h2>
<p className="mt-3 text-da-muted-fg">{description}</p>
</div>
<ol className="mx-auto mt-12 flex max-w-3xl flex-col gap-6">
{items.map((t, i) => {
const mine = i % 2 === 1;
return (
<li key={t.name} className={cn("flex items-end gap-3", mine && "flex-row-reverse")}>
<span aria-hidden className={cn("grid size-9 shrink-0 place-items-center rounded-full font-da-display text-xs font-semibold", TONES[t.tone ?? "primary"])}>
{t.initials}
</span>
<figure className={cn("flex max-w-[85%] flex-col gap-1.5 sm:max-w-[75%]", mine && "items-end")}>
<blockquote
className={cn(
"px-5 py-3 text-[15px] leading-relaxed",
mine ? "rounded-da-lg rounded-br-da-sm bg-da-secondary" : "da-stroke rounded-da-lg rounded-bl-da-sm bg-da-surface",
)}
>
<p>{t.quote}</p>
</blockquote>
<figcaption className="px-1 text-xs text-da-muted-fg">
<span className="font-medium text-da-fg">{t.name}</span> · {t.role}
</figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
);
})}
</ol>
</div>
</section>
);
}
export default TestimonialsChat;
modules/nocturne/section/testimonials-chat/index.tsx
Props
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| title / description | string | — | Heading copy. |
| items | { quote, name, role, initials, tone? }[] | — | Quotes; tone ∈ primary | accent | success | warning. |
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 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 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.
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 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.