Also known as: card with popup, story cards, profile cards, card with plus sign, expandable card
Description
A card displaying a photo and brief teaser copy. When selected, the card opens a modal (popup) with more details about the topic or person.
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Examples
Design
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Example 2 -
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Modal open - full-width header image |
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Modal open - 50/50 header image |
Use When
- Storytelling; sharing a person's profile or career background (examples: BBA Careers, Companies and Recruiters)
- Expanding on a topic (example: AI Hub page)
- You have content to fill at least 2 cards and their modals (this component doesn't look as nice when there is only one card)This component works great when you have varying amounts of details for each topic. (e.g. when you have 2 detail paragraphs for topic A and 4 paragraphs for topic B)
- There needs to be enough quality content such that interacting with the modal feels worthwhile to the user.
- Don't just fill the modal with fluff to try to make this component work. If it is a struggle to create enough content for each of the cards, consider using a different component with less copy and/or organizing the content differently.
- There needs to be enough quality content such that interacting with the modal feels worthwhile to the user.
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- No character limit, but keep the length within reason. Typically, modal content spans 3 to 6 short paragraphs or chunks of content.
- Follow web best practices for keeping content easy to digest and scannable
- Use subheadings if you include more than 2 paragraphs
- We can include a variety of content here, such as:
- paragraphs
- pullquotes
- supporting images
- photo collages
- an embedded YouTube video
Design Assets Needed
Images
Card photo (required)
- Circle crop photo
- Square photo with face centered; use a headshot or another type of photo where the person is facing the camera
- Dimensions: 500x500px or 1000x1000px
- jpeg file
- Full-width photo
- Standard horizontal photo; use a portrait or environmental shot
- Dimensions - : 2400x1600px
- jpeg file
- Face should be in top 1/3 of image so it doesn't get covered by text at the bottom
- We can add vertical images to make the cards taller, if desired. But all photos for cards in the same row/block should have the same dimensions.
- Standard horizontal photo; use a portrait or environmental shot
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Modal supporting images (optional)
- We have a lot of layout flexibility in few options for adding images to the modal body. Work with a web developer if you have a layout idea that you don't see belowWork with a web developer.
Company Logo
Logo displayed next to name, title, and company
- Logo specs: 512px wide, height will vary
Layout created for T2L4 landing page
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DEV NOTES
* Image one and two must be horizontal, image three vertical
* Image two and three are hidden for mobile screens.
* Can use a single caption for all three images for desktop.
* The mobile caption should just be for image one, since the others are not visible at that point.
CODE - WITH CAPTION
<div class="mixed-layout-collage">
<div class="image-one">
<img decoding="async" class="image brand-border-radius" src="" alt="" aria-describedby="mixed-collage-caption">
</div>
<div class="image-two">
<img decoding="async" class="image brand-border-radius" src="" alt="" aria-describedby="mixed-collage-caption">
</div>
<div class="caption" id="mixed-collage-caption">
<p class="mobile-caption pt-2">Mobile Caption</p>
<p class="desktop-caption text-end">Desktop Caption</p>
</div>
<div class="image-three">
<img decoding="async" class="image brand-border-radius" src="" alt="" aria-describedby="mixed-collage-caption">
</div>
</div>
CODE - NO CAPTION
<div class="mixed-layout-collage">
<div class="image-one">
<img decoding="async" class="image brand-border-radius" src="" alt="">
</div>
<div class="image-two">
<img decoding="async" class="image brand-border-radius" src="" alt="">
</div>
<div class="image-three">
<img decoding="async" class="image brand-border-radius" src="" alt="">
</div>
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Variations
Stacked or swiper
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Stacked
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Swiper
Modal header image
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Full-width modal header image – text sits on the image, with a dark gradient overlay for contrast.
Additional modal elements
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- red pullquote
- gray horizontal rule
- microtitle (yellow triangle, subhead styled in all caps, dark blue text)
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- These are standard sections for our custom blocks.








