The following overviews my design work in CareerGarden.
Product Tagline: Plant your path.
Project Objective
CareerGarden aims to provide users with a gamified platform for goal-oriented career journaling and reflection. The project seeks to empower individuals to cultivate their professional paths through an engaging and secure mobile application.
About the Project
Through the W+TS ADA Tech Mentorship Program, our project team consisted of 2 Mid-Career Mentors and 6 university students from Canada and the US.
In the Ideation stage, the idea for CareerGarden sparked to develop a gamified application leveraging emerging tech to enhance social challenges for working professionals and university students.
Key Features
Reflective Journaling: Securely document career milestones, challenges, and aspirations.
Gamified Experience: Transform your career journey into an interactive adventure, unlocking virtual plants for each achievement.
Achievement Unlocking: Celebrate successes by unlocking diverse virtual plants, creating a personalized garden of accomplishments.
Business Case
Targeting professionals and students aged 18-35, CareerGarden addresses rising workplace and educational stress levels. It responds to the demand for a platform intertwining self-reflection and goal-oriented growth.
Existing apps focus on one aspect, but CareerGarden stands out by offering a unique space for cultivating soft skills, sharing insights, and showcasing personal development.
In the competitive job market, it presents a concise solution to the multifaceted requirements of modern career development with a wellness-oriented approach, meeting the needs of users seeking personal growth, mental wellness, and career advancement through engaging gamification.
From Ideation to Design
Below is the link to the CareerGarden Master Spreadsheet for Design, from ideation to the final wireframe.