You Are Here
You don’t need a perfect plan, just a clearer view of where you are. This reflective resource helps you map your career journey, assess your energy, and reconnect with what matters most at your current crossroads.
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You Are Here - Making Sense of the Crossroads
You’ve reflected, mapped, and checked in throughout the You Are Here section. Now it’s time to pull it all together and name what this moment is asking of you — and what comes next.
Fulfillment Audit
Zoom out and check in. This audit helps you assess key areas — from creativity to community — so you can spot what’s thriving, what’s missing, and where to focus next.
Energizers & Depleters
Energy is data. This quick exercise helps you identify what fuels you and what drains you — so you can start designing your next steps with clarity and intention.
Career Journey Map
Your path hasn’t been a straight line — and that’s where the insight lives. This activity helps you map the key moments, shifts, and patterns that brought you to your current crossroads.
Napkin Math: A Quick Way to Estimate Feasibility, Cost, and Impact
Test your idea’s feasibility in minutes—before investing too much time or resources.
Mapping an Experiment: Identifying and Testing Your Riskiest Assumption in Social Impact Work
Experiment Mapping is a framework for testing assumptions, reducing risk, and making smarter decisions.
Who Am I? Defining Your Professional Identity with Confidence
Shape your professional story with self-reflection and peer feedback to confidently align your personal and professional identity.
Rapid Innovation: Mastering Idea Validation with Paper
Looking to validate your design ideas without investing in expensive software or lengthy processes? This guide to paper prototyping shows you how to turn simple sketches into powerful tools for user feedback and iteration.
Future-Proof Your Career: Crafting Your Professional Blueprint
Feeling stuck in your career? This self-guided workshop helps you take control by treating your career like a product. Define your vision, map required skills, and create a personalized plan to achieve your goals—all at your own pace.
The Art of Storyboarding: From Scenarios to Visual Stories
Storyboarding transforms user scenarios into visual sequences, helping teams communicate interactions, context, and key moments in the design process.
Crafting Scenarios: Bridging User Goals and Design Solutions
Scenarios turn abstract ideas into user-centered stories, focusing on behavior, goals, and context to guide effective design.
Reframing: A Guide to Unlocking Creative Insights
Reframing is a powerful tool for designers and problem-solvers to view challenges from new perspectives, unlocking creative insights and innovative
Insight Combination: Turning Research into Design Ideas
Insight combination is a method that transforms raw research data into actionable design ideas by blending meaningful insights and trending
Mastering Customer Journey Mapping: A Practical Guide
Customer journey mapping is a user-centered tool that visualizes interactions between a customer and a system over time. By understanding
Unlock the Power of Concept Mapping for Design and Problem Solving
Concept mapping is an essential tool for designers, strategists, and problem-solvers to make sense of complex systems. It sacrifices strict
From Insights to Impact: Hands-On with Research Artifacts
Learn how to analyze research artifacts like journey maps and personas to turn insights into actionable design decisions.
Unlock the Power of Ethnographic Design Research
Ethnographic research is about immersing yourself in the lives of your audience to deeply understand their behaviors, challenges, and environments.
Modeling Work for Contextual Design
Work modeling helps teams visualize user behaviors, workflows, and breakdowns to uncover insights and improve design decisions.
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Impactful Careers: Tackling Wicked Problems Through Professional Innovation
A career framework guiding professionals to solve complex societal challenges by mapping problems, reflecting on skills, and generating innovative impact strategies.
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