Goalify: Making worthwhile memories through self-betterment
Background summary
Goalify is a web application that enables users to develop & reflect on their progress and growth while pursuing various goals.
Product Sector: Productivity & Task management workspace
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To understand some of Goalify’s capabilities feel free to scroll down to see our current features.
🛠️ Goalify feature breakdown
When creating your goals, we added a motivation feature so you can always remember why you started pursuing a certain goal. Our intention was for this to help you return to the same frame of mind you were in when creating your goal - why? Just in case you find yourself losing consistency as you work towards accomplishing it.
We added a milestone feature that allows you to break down your goal into more actionable steps. This provides a platform for you to take action toward celebrating your small wins.
After you’re done creating your goal, you can start tracking it through your goal card. The goal card provides details about your progress and what your next milestone is within a said goal. You can also update your progress within the goal card by clicking on the Milestone button.
⏯️ Active & Paused goals
Taking a break vs quitting
Two default categories are provided upon users creating their account. “Active goals” & “Paused goals.”
Why? Sometimes we have to put things in our life on pause and prioritize other things, we didn’t want the knee-jerk experience from our product to be deleting goals that aren’t currently being pursued. Instead, we aimed to provide a place to host goals that have been put on pause due to other life events. When you have the time again to pursue and track your paused goals, you can bring them back to the main “Active goals” view board by clicking on the play button.
A goal is being paused and transported to the Paused goals tab. After, the user can resume tracking the goal by clicking on “play” to transport it back to the Active tabs view.
🗂️ Custom category tabs
Goals can come from all facets of our lives so we knew we had to provide users with a way to easily view goals that only belonged to niche categories. To reduce visual congestion, category tabs were created to organize goals in their niche tab, works just like creating a new tab on Safari, Chrome et al.
📸 Images to commemorate progress
To access a goal’s main page, you can click on the edit button on your goal card. Here you can add images and reflections toward your achieved milestones.
Images help provide visual proof of your progress towards a goal and allow you to have a “physical” view of your milestone accomplishments. This helps with exuding a sense of self-worth for your effort towards accomplishing your goal.
✨Reflecting on achievements creates memories worth reliving
When something feels good, we want to have that feeling again. We provided the opportunity to reflect and commemorate achieved milestones through a reflection feature. Reflecting on progress can help propagate feelings of self-worth and ultimately organic drive. This helps with building intrinsic motivation towards achieving the remainder of milestones set for a goal. The reflection/reaction feature is only available upon a user marking a milestone as achieved either through the goal card or on the goal’s main page.
🎊 Designing for human moments
Choosing to pursue self-betterment through goals takes a lot of hard work, sacrifice & effort. It’s important to celebrate the journey you will be going through. Once a user has marked all their milestones as accomplished they are met with a moment of 🎊 celebration for all their hard work in completing the goal. So go ahead, and celebrate your accomplishments on us!
Next steps
If you made it this far, thanks for stopping by. If you do give Goalify a try, we hope to hear your thoughts and feedback as we work to make it a more seamless experience for our users. If you do have feedback feel free to shoot an email to this address: adeobayomi@gmail.com