Goal Up
2018.11 - 2018.12 (School project)
A smart tool to facilitate performance review, track goals and boost personal growth for the employees.
Prompt
Instrument need a tool to facilitate their bi-annual performance review, so that it can help improve personal growth in the company.
Problem
The lack of accessible planning and tracking of the employees’ goals and achievements lead to the difficulty in doing performance reviews and generating expansion plan for individual development.
Solution
Creating a system where the employees can set monthly goals, mark their progress and achievements, and their personal growth can be visualized and tracked based on the achievements. The useful information will be collected to help them fill the bi-annual performance reviews.
Record Achievements
The monthly goals can be generated from their expansion plans, and integrate with ongoing projects or any other events. The information of completion rate, achievements and the skills involved in the process will be utilized to fill the self-assessment forms.
Track Growth
Provide a dashboard visualizing the personal growth data for the employees to track the trends and gain insights for generating future expansion plan.
Give Feedback
Employees can give any real-time feedback on each other’s achievements or ongoing events, and this information can be collected to help them fill the peer evaluation forms.
Objectives
1. Accelerate individual development
Accelerate individual development by tracking personal growth trends on the data visualization dashboard.
2. Easier and accessible performance reviews
Generate useful information from daily actions and achievements to help efficiently fill the performance review forms.
3. Foster culture of sharing feedback
Encourage communication in the company by enabling real-time feedback chats.
Persona
These images represent the persona of my target audience. It helps me know better about my user's life style, personality, so that I can focus on the primary users during the entire design process.
Key words: Designer, team work, concentration, graphs, work-life balance
Competitor study
Impraise
Established a platform where people can create personal, team, and company-wide goals and request real-time feedback.
15Five
Break yearly performance review to weekly check-ins. Set a frequent communication rhythm between managers and employees
Trackstar
Visualize all the reports and data, so that you can track your review progress and growth trends.
Rapid sketches
Hi-Fi Wireframes
Home page
Goals
Feed
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User flow 1
Home -- track action progress and mark as achievement
Design & Annotations
Interaction
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User flow 2
Goal -- Create goal based on personal growth plan
Design & Annotations
Interaction
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User flow 3
Feeds — Give feedback on others’ actions & achievements
Design & Annotations
Conclusion
Overall, Goal Up break the bi-annual performance review into monthly goals and achievements, the employees can track their achievements and growth easily, know their strength and weakness better, so that it can foster personal development culture in the company.
