Resources
Everything you need to prepare before you open the app, or to run the framework on paper.
Downloads and worksheets
Project log template
The same columns as the app: project, client, industry, hard-skill and soft-skill processes, feedback, impact and remarks. Fill it in a spreadsheet first, then copy across.
Passion worksheet
A one-page set of questions about which work gave you energy and which drained you. Print it or save it as a PDF from your browser.
The process checklists
In the project log you tick what you did on each project, not what the team did. Read the lists once so you know what to look for in your own history.
Hard-skill processes
- User research & interviews
- Research synthesis & insights
- Product & design strategy
- Information architecture & user flows
- Wireframing & prototyping
- UI & visual design
- Interaction & motion design
- Design systems & components
- Usability testing & validation
- Data analysis & metrics
- Content & UX writing
- Accessibility & inclusive design
- Designing with or for AI
- Front-end or code prototyping
- Developer handoff & QA
- Service blueprints & journey mapping
Soft-skill processes
- Stakeholder management
- Facilitating workshops
- Storytelling & presenting
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Negotiation & influencing
- Leading or managing a team
- Mentoring & coaching
- Resolving conflict
- Prioritising & decision-making
- Client communication
- Framing ambiguous problems
- Driving change & evangelising design
Where the market data comes from
Every source AlphaVector reads is listed with its reliability on the method page. Inside the app, each market claim in your Blueprint points back to its source.
Glossary
- Signal
- One of the three independent readings: Strengths, Passion or Market demand.
- Fix
- Your position, found where the three signals agree.
- Proof score
- A 0 to 100 score for how well your project history proves a given strength.
- Capability distance
- How far a direction is from the work you already do, from 0 (you do it now) to 100 (a different field).
- Safe, Growth, Bold
- The three routes in your Future Blueprint, spaced by capability distance.
- Gap
- A capability between you and a target role, with a size, a timeline and matched resources.
- Confidence
- How much evidence stands behind a result. Thin evidence lowers confidence, not possibility.
- Recalibrate
- Fixing your position again after you reach a goal or finish new projects.