"Bonaca" is the Croatian word for a perfectly calm sea.
It's also the name of the product I'm designing: a revenue-decision copilot for charter fleets.
The name is a design decision — and nowhere more than on the crisis screen.
Every March, the same moment: summer still open, bookings thin, and every instinct saying — drop the price. Now.
This is the moment most tools reach for red badges and alerts. I did the opposite — the crisis screen became the calmest screen in the product.
The user arriving here is already scared. Adding urgency to a scared person doesn't produce action; it produces a worse decision. Panic doesn't need amplifying. It needs a room with the noise turned down.
So Bonaca's Panic view does four things:
→ One boat at a time. Focus narrows to a single decision — not a wall of alarms.
→ Two futures, both priced. Drop now → €31,000, certain. Hold → ~€52,000, likely by June.
→ The gap gets a name: the price of panic. €21,000. Visible, never judged.
→ "Drop anyway" sits right there, quiet and unjudged. Sometimes locking in cash today is the right call — and a tool that overrides you once doesn't get opened twice.
No red anywhere. More whitespace than any other screen in the product. The design does what a good skipper does in a storm: it lowers its voice.
Because in a crisis, calm isn't decoration — calm is information. It tells the user: you have time to think.
The product carries the name. Even in March, the interface stays bonaca.