| What do I want to do with my career life |
Evelyn Kim |
A toolkit from a former design manager at Uber that includes making a map, a career journey, assessing skills, and setting goals. |
| OKRs worksheet |
Jenny Wen |
Simple straightforward worksheet made in Figma to track your own personal OKRs |
| UX Career Development Worksheet |
Jeromy Henry |
Pretty exhaustive 4-page document to help map all kinds of questions like folks you’d like to learn from, skills to develop, a timeline, and an action plan |
| Yearly Review |
Joey Banks |
Not so much for career specifically, but a good notion template for reflecting on your year overall |
| Applying Growth Design and Prototyping |
David Hoang |
A more experimental framework around designing little career experiments based on similar principles used from Growth teams |
| Career Odyssey |
David Hoang |
Mapping out your career path in a way that doesn’t have to be “linear” |
| Deciding on a Job Framework |
Noah Levin |
Used this to help find a job (Figma!) but can apply to anyone who’s looking for general career reflection as well. Uses a bit more of an analytical table paired with introspective questions, somewhat similar to Joel Califa’s Job Spreadsheet |
| Giant tweet thread on career goals |
Cynthia Chen |
Not so much a framework, but helpful to read lots and lots of responses to the question: “Does anyone else struggle with career convos and defining "career goals"? |
| Goal Tracking Template for Designers |
Jess Eddy |
This template uses a Kanban-style approach to keep track of activities within a goal. This tracking style allows you and others to see your goals and your contributions toward them. |
| Skills mapping |
Shana Hu |
Identifying strengths and areas of improvement. Skills listed here are tailored to the role of a product designer, but you could adapt this for other roles too. It’s based loosely on Evelyn Kim’s doc above. |
| New hire intake FigJam file |
Noah Levin |
We sometimes use this for new hires (especially interns and new grads) to help acclimate what they might be looking for. This is an evolution of questions we often use in early 1:1s. |