And then you come up with this??
- There is a lot of wasted space in there.
- The interface in inconsistent. Why are “save” and “delete” buttons outside the dream diary?
- People may be able to “rate” dreams, but not in terms of 1 to 100 (“Hmm, is this a +87 or a +88?”), neither can they even accurately select a rating on that tiny slider.
- You provide a limited space for custom stats. To see how an unlimited number of stats can be put into a small(ish) space, see Microsoft Word’s Document Properties dialog (“Custom” tab).
- “Lucidity” and “Vividness” should be custom stats to make everything simpler for the user.
See this animation to see the behaviour and the behaviour which would have been better.
- Make sure you can type the date as much as possible. Set the date to yesterday by default.
- People don’t know the time of their dreams.
- Add the time it was actually written, which should not need to be changed by the user. The time between the night of the dream and the recording of the dream indicates how much was forgotten.
- “DC” and “DS” are not obvious. Consider “Character” and “Sign”.
- The “SEARCH” tab makes no sense whatsoever. None. Not at all. Not even when placed between “Dream characters” and “Dream signs”.
- See quotes…
Your “book” metaphor will break apart when people want to list dreams by name instead of date, or by rating. The tabs on the right (On the right?!?) also break the metaphor.
You may also end up creating pointless animations (book closing, page turning, etc) or graphics which will bloat the application size.
“DreamCatcher” is a nice name. “Dream Catcher” is even nicer.