Rise
A web-based habit and progress-tracking platform for personal and career growth
Task Management
Cross-feature Integration
Role
UX Research, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Data Visualisation, UI System Design, Prototyping
Timeline
6.5 Weeks (Sep 11 - Oct 23 2025)
Tools
Figma, v0
Overview
Rise is a professional development platform designed to help young professionals build consistent growth habits. While many tools focus on setting goals, they often fail to support the day-to-day behaviors required to achieve them. This leads to a gap between intention and execution.
Rise addresses this by combining goal tracking, guided reflection, and lightweight accountability into a single system. By surfacing patterns over time and breaking progress into manageable steps, the platform helps users stay engaged, build momentum, and make meaningful progress toward their long-term goals.
Context
More than half of young professionals struggle to stay consistent with their goals.
Growth depends on sustained habits, not one-time effort
Many tools help users set goals, track tasks, or consume content, but they often operate in isolation. Progress becomes fragmented across to-do lists, notes, and reminders, making it difficult to see how daily actions connect to long-term growth.
Research showed that while individuals are motivated to improve, maintaining consistency is challenging. Without clear feedback or structure, it becomes easy to lose momentum, fall into cycles of starting and stopping, and feel disconnected from progress.
Understanding the Problem
Why I focused on early-career professional growth
As an early-career professional, I experienced the pressure to grow quickly without clear systems to support that growth. Goals, habits, and progress are often fragmented across tools, making consistency difficult to maintain.
As a result, professional growth becomes reactive rather than intentional.
Key Screens and Features
From raw metrics to understandable, personalized guidance
How the experience works
Parameter is designed around four connected moments: personalised dashboard, health information in plain language, AI integration, and data aggregation. Together these layers reduce cognitive load, improve comprehension, and help users translate information into practical next steps.
User Interviews
Learning how early-career professionals manage growth
I interviewed 5 early-career professionals, ages 21–26, to understand how they organized their goals, habits, and professional development over time.
Across interviews, growth systems were consistently fragmented across notes, calendars, reminders, and mentorship platforms. Without a clear structure connecting these tools, it was difficult for users to maintain consistency or see how daily actions contributed to larger goals.
The core issue was not motivation, but the lack of a structured, connected system.
1.0 Affinity Map
Competitive Research
Where existing tools fall short
I analyzed habit tracking, productivity, and mentorship platforms to understand how professional growth is currently supported.
The review showed that existing tools address isolated needs, but do not connect habits, reflection, planning, and mentorship in one experience. As a result, users are left to manage growth across multiple disconnected systems.
The gap was not more features, but a more unified system.
2.0 Competitor Audit
What the research made clear
Growth needs a centralized system
Users want one place to manage habits, mentorship, and resources instead of juggling fragmented tools.
Reflection makes progress more meaningful
Reflection helps users connect daily actions to long-term goals, making growth feel more intentional.
Consistency depends on clarity and accountability
Simple, repeatable tools and outcome-driven mentorship help users stay engaged over time.
