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.
soft-flat/section/testimonials-sliderSource
"use client";
import { useState } from "react";
import { ArrowLeft, ArrowRight, Star } from "lucide-react";
import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
export interface TestimonialsSliderProps {
title?: string;
items?: { quote: string; name: string; role: string; rating: number }[];
className?: string;
}
const TINTS = ["bg-da-accent text-da-accent-fg", "bg-da-secondary text-da-secondary-fg", "bg-da-primary/12", "bg-da-warning/25"];
const DEFAULT_ITEMS = [
{
quote: "Planning our content calendar used to be chaos. Now it’s a board and a weekly view — done.",
name: "Mei Tanaka",
role: "Content lead, Nook",
rating: 5,
},
{ quote: "The first productivity app that doesn’t make me feel behind.", name: "Tom Becker", role: "Founder, Parcelly", rating: 5 },
{ quote: "Guests are free, so our clients see progress without another login fee.", name: "Omar Haddad", role: "Agency owner", rating: 5 },
{ quote: "Recurring tasks + gentle reminders = our office finally runs itself.", name: "Jonas Weber", role: "Ops manager, Hive", rating: 4 },
];
/** Horizontal slider of pastel testimonial cards with star ratings; round prev/next buttons scroll by one card, dots show position. */
export function TestimonialsSlider({ title = "Kind words", items = DEFAULT_ITEMS, className }: TestimonialsSliderProps) {
const [index, setIndex] = useState(0);
const go = (d: number) => setIndex((i) => Math.min(items.length - 1, Math.max(0, i + d)));
return (
<section aria-roledescription="carousel" aria-label="Testimonials" className={cn("da-section overflow-hidden bg-da-bg text-da-fg", className)}>
<div className="da-container">
<div className="flex items-end justify-between gap-4">
<h2 className="font-da-display text-[clamp(2rem,4.5vw,3rem)] font-extrabold tracking-da-display">{title}</h2>
<div className="flex gap-2">
<button
type="button"
onClick={() => go(-1)}
disabled={index === 0}
aria-label="Previous"
className="da-focus da-transition grid size-12 place-items-center rounded-full bg-da-surface shadow-da-sm hover:-translate-y-0.5 disabled:opacity-40"
>
<ArrowLeft aria-hidden className="size-5" />
</button>
<button
type="button"
onClick={() => go(1)}
disabled={index === items.length - 1}
aria-label="Next"
className="da-focus da-transition grid size-12 place-items-center rounded-full bg-da-primary text-da-primary-fg shadow-da-sm hover:-translate-y-0.5 disabled:opacity-40"
>
<ArrowRight aria-hidden className="size-5" />
</button>
</div>
</div>
<div className="mt-10">
<ul
className="flex gap-5 transition-transform duration-(--da-duration-slow) ease-da motion-reduce:transition-none"
style={{ transform: `translateX(calc(-${index} * (min(420px, 85vw) + 1.25rem)))` }}
>
{items.map((t, i) => (
<li
key={t.name}
aria-roledescription="slide"
aria-label={`${i + 1} of ${items.length}`}
aria-hidden={i < index}
className="w-[min(420px,85vw)] shrink-0"
>
<figure className={cn("flex h-full flex-col rounded-da-lg p-8", TINTS[i % TINTS.length])}>
<p className="flex" aria-label={`${t.rating} out of 5 stars`}>
{Array.from({ length: 5 }, (_, k) => (
<Star key={k} aria-hidden className={cn("size-5", k < t.rating ? "fill-current" : "opacity-30")} />
))}
</p>
<blockquote className="mt-5 flex-1 font-da-display text-xl leading-snug font-bold">“{t.quote}”</blockquote>
<figcaption className="mt-6 text-sm">
<span className="font-semibold">{t.name}</span> · <span className="opacity-85">{t.role}</span>
</figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
))}
</ul>
</div>
<div className="mt-8 flex justify-center gap-2" aria-hidden>
{items.map((_, i) => (
<span key={i} className={cn("da-transition h-2 rounded-full", i === index ? "w-8 bg-da-primary" : "w-2 bg-da-border-strong")} />
))}
</div>
</div>
</section>
);
}
export default TestimonialsSlider;
modules/soft-flat/section/testimonials-slider/index.tsx
Props
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| title | string | — | Heading. |
| items | { quote, name, role, rating }[] | — | Cards. |
| className | string | — | Classes. |
Other testimonials variants in Soft Flat
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 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.
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.