Client Stories

Testimonial48: Client Stories

Client stories as alternating rows: each pairs a portrait that drifts inside its frame with a small-caps story title, a serif quote, an attribution and a link to the full account.

Installation

Swap YOUR_EMAIL and YOUR_KEY for the email and license key on your account. Find your license key on your account page.

Radix flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r/testimonial48?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/testimonial48?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/testimonial48.tsx plus the button22 sliding-marker pill and the text1 word stagger it uses.

Quick start

The installed file exports testimonial48Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working stories section in one line.

import { Testimonial48, testimonial48Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/testimonial48";

export default function Page() {
  return <Testimonial48 {...testimonial48Demo} />;
}

Then replace the demo with your own props. Written out, a trimmed setup looks like this:

import { Testimonial48 } from "@/components/beste/block/testimonial48";

export default function Page() {
  return (
    <Testimonial48
      eyebrow="Stories"
      heading="Ordinary people. Quiet, stubborn change."
      description="Nobody here arrived with a plan."
      button={{ label: "All stories", href: "/stories", tone: "outline" }}
      stories={[
        {
          title: "Learning to stop at the end of the day",
          quote: "I came in because I could not switch off. Six months later the work stays at the desk.",
          name: "Agnes Obel",
          context: "Eighteen months with the practice",
          href: "/stories/agnes",
          image: { src: "/people/agnes.jpg", alt: "Portrait of a client" },
        },
      ]}
      labels={{ readStory: "Read the story" }}
    />
  );
}

Props

type Story = {
  title: string;
  quote: string;
  name: string;
  context: string;
  href: string;
  image: { src: string; alt: string };
};

type ActionButton = {
  label: string;
  href: string;
  tone?: "primary" | "light" | "dark" | "outline";
};

Behavior notes

• The alternation uses explicit md:col-start values on index % 2 while both cells stay in md:row-start-1, so the sides flip without the DOM order changing; the portrait always comes first in the markup, which keeps the reading order sane on every row.
• Below md those column starts drop away and every row stacks portrait-then-quote, so the alternation never produces an inconsistent order on a phone.
• Quotes are real blockquote elements inside article wrappers, so the words are marked up as quoted material rather than as styled paragraphs.
• Each title is a separate small-caps line above the quote, so a long story can be summarised without turning the quote itself into a heading.
• Every portrait owns its own scroll listener, so the rows do not drift in lockstep.
• Rows are spaced with a gap-20 growing to gap-32 rather than rules, so the section reads as a sequence of scenes.
• The story link's arrow lifts only under motion-safe:, so the affordance is dropped for reduced motion while the link keeps working.