How do designers make career plans -5-year IDP personal plans

2022, this year I also reached the age of 30. Among the friends I contacted, everyone gave me the evaluation that I was growing up very fast. In fact, before the age of 25, I also lived a muddled attitude towards life. At the age of 25, I realized. If I were 30 years old, what would I be like. At that time, I read an article on a five-year plan, which inspired me. Find the career goals you want. The next five-year target is about to begin.

So I wrote this article about the experience of the past five years. The core part of the article is the content of the five-year plan. The front is to make it easier for design to find its own career goal direction. If you are confused, you can communicate in depth.

is talking about career planning, it must be to achieve the ultimate goal of career, so this time I don't talk about how to learn a software or how to complete a design project, or even customize a learning plan. This time I only talk about how many ways designers can go and how to achieve their goals.

designers will probably have three major directions in three, five and ten years: technical, management and management.

obvious, the technical type is to continuously specialize in technology, focusing on visual presentation and software proficiency. Professional design ability, excellent visual performance, high quality to complete the product or operation requirements. Can conceive, create and execute according to the visual creative content, and can develop the creativity from concept to specific design through visual expression; And in finding their own areas of expertise, vertically develop into "I" designers.

[Technical: 1. Senior designers 2. Design experts of medium and large enterprises 3. Free designers]

, some people say that the design is tiring and real. When you are 30 years old, you must rely on management. If management is so easy, what is the significance of the need for managers? Many of them stay up to the end in small Party A companies, and finally get promoted because they are familiar with the company's business process and time. But in fact, most people don't know that with your current comprehensive ability, it is difficult to find a job in the same position in the same market. Therefore, you are even more afraid to change. Over time, your competitiveness in the design talent market will become lower and lower. It is the most important thing to make yourself invincible. Many management designers have developed vertically in a certain field and have outstanding abilities before. At the same time, he also has design knowledge in many fields, except for communication and expression ability, interpersonal relationship and team management ability. These are all advantages that need to be sexual. Make yourself a "T" talent.

[Technical: 4. Design Director 5. Design Partner 6. Independent Studio]

PS: Many people told me why you didn't come out to work alone. Your current project level is comparable to that of many design companies. My own answer said, according to the current traffic. There is no way to support the idea of opening a studio. It is impossible to balance the ability of project execution and business development at the same time, and having a resource partnership would be better suited to do such a thing.

management is too high. I am a designer who dare not overevaluate my current level. Let's briefly share my views. In addition to excellent technology as a prerequisite, it is more important to learn to package yourself. Talk about resumes, awards, and cases. Some of the operations I know are to continuously participate in awards and pay to write articles to promote myself.

[Technical: 7. Design Master 8. Design Company Founder 9. Design Lecturer]

[Technical-Big Brother's Self-cultivation]

, there are also some designers who have worked for 2. three years and find that the workplace has reached a bottleneck period, the design level is stagnant, and they are always dissatisfied with their works, but they can't improve, and they feel very depressed. At this time, we need to make an appropriate break and break through our own. There are very few opportunities for you to improve at work, and the company invites you to come here from the perspective of economic benefits, not for you to learn. The company only hopes that you can complete the design task more efficiently and cost-effective. And other types of designers at the same level in the market are several times more efficient than you in other fields. If you are the boss, will you try to give this trial and error cost to you? At the same time, if you have a variety of field experience, you will want to change jobs or raise your salary. And when your growth rate is greater than that of the company, you can't keep it. If you were the boss, I believe you would not like to see it. Therefore, in this case, it is easier to grow up outside of work and make yourself more competitive.

I have summed up three prerequisites for becoming a technical designer.

1. Software breadth, and proficiency

2. High design aesthetics

3. Years of experience in the industry

[Management-Design Efficiency Manager]

management positions are responsible for the management of design and designers. For the project, control the progress of the project and make profits for the company. For the company, we must take the company's interests as the starting point. For subordinates, give accurate design direction and instill experience. For design team management, making design cases that make one of the same behaviors sigh is only for designers to look up. Enterprises don't care about you, the final design is to carry commercial value, that is, to sell goods. This is different from personal art. For a manager, what the enterprise evaluates you is the overall efficiency of the team and the improvement of production value.

is as follows: others spend 1 million manpower team cost, you spend 200,000 manpower cost: others waste 5 days of team manpower cost due to lack of experience judgment in the design process, and your experience is avoided; Eight thousand designers, according to your methodology and guidance, have the same ability as designers who need 10,002 treatment in the market; these are all measures of your specific value as a manager in the enterprise. How to be an excellent director?

I have also summed up three points for becoming a management designer.

1. Project management capabilities

2. Clear logical skills

3. Good communication skills and EQ skills

[Business-Use brand thinking to manage yourself]

In fact, no matter what stage you are at, you should also have this consciousness. In your career development, it can bring you additional positive feedback, which comes from your reputation. Looking back on the past, both colleagues and superiors gave me great comments. Looking back on the previous company, I was very active in completing the requirements given by my colleagues across departments. No matter whether I would take up the private time or the requirements were not clear, I would still improve the points not mentioned in the requirements. Over time, the demanders of other departments will naturally find me directly to raise the demand, but based on the workplace environment, I will say that you should inform my leader of this demand. And named me to finish, I am happy to finish. It's just that if you receive me directly, it's a little easier for me to overstep my authority. (Who knows if the boss will be narrow-minded?)

this is also what I often share with my friends. Don't hold that mentality. If I do too much, I will suffer. Because of a certain problem, I am opposed to my colleagues. A face of my disobedience, this is not good for your career development. Now is a good job, the past colleagues will recommend, give high evaluation.

to get back to the point, I have also summed up three points for becoming a business designer:

1. Your differentiation

2. Fame and traffic

3. Your cashing channel

was lucky to meet IDP (Personal Development Plan) 4 years ago, which showed me the way forward. It gave me a deep thought about what my future career would look like. I hope after listening to my sharing, you can walk out of confusion like me.

So what is IDP?

IDP is based on its own status quo, finds the real needs of its heart, and builds a bridge between the status quo and the future.

the following are the core of the core of this article, the above is to let you find your own direction, and the following content is to tell you to do so.

01 Current Situation Analysis: What kind of workplace are you in?

here to give an example, there are three colleagues: colleague A lacks work objectives and his own thinking, and his usual work is done by the needs of his boss or operation; Colleague B does not know what kind of job he is suitable for and cannot find a job position. Due to the needs of the market or the company, he has learned a lot of design software, but his ability is limited, but his time and energy are scattered; colleague C has been deeply involved in a field for many years, but there is no obvious improvement. He feels that the effort is not proportional to the harvest and the cost of change is high.

02 Core Concept: Determine Your Ideal Career Status

I have listed all the ideal status I want to achieve, and selected three as my core concepts: high income, interest, and self-improvement.

(It is better to choose no more than 3 core concepts. You must be realistic and not fake. I can't help you with more money, less work and less responsibility, which I can't help you).

select the ideal state from the following positive or unwanted negative state.

: high income, sense of security, stability, creativity, sense of accomplishment, autonomy, challenge, work and rest rules, social value, equality, interest, etc.

: high pressure, long time, interpersonal complexity, repetition, no challenges, limited development, etc.

for example, my ultimate goal is to have my own studio and become a freelance designer. If you can, become a designer who can influence others. Achieve self-improvement.

choose the ultimate goal that suits you. It is not necessary to take the highest goal as the best. Two suggestions are given in choosing the ultimate development goal: one is to choose the right one. Development goals; the second is to try to choose development goals that are closely related to the current work.

03 Formulate long-term goals

have found a suitable goal? After setting a good goal, we will realize it. We should think about three points before landing. Definition of goals; Target evaluation; Target dismantling.

initially formulated a personal development plan.

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has its own 5-year long-term plan, it has initially formed an understanding of the key conditions of the target. We need to split the key condition completion steps to form specific quantifiable, executable and measurable objective conditions.
to perform a time backstepping exercise based on the final state 5 years later. Set goals for each year or phase. According to their own advantages and disadvantages, formulate their own development methods. Only in this way can you have a clear understanding of your goal.

The following is a five-year IDP schedule designed by me. This schedule is a five-year total. You can specify an annual schedule for each year.

the 05 time management
goal has been set, the next step is to "do", after all, just talk about not doing fake things.

can recommend the tomato work method here, or look at "Make Your Time More Valuable" (by Zhang Meng). Sorry, I can't manage the time accurately to 5 minutes like those big bosses. We'll just use Zhou as the unit.

First of all, you can make a 30-minute plan for next week's work every weekend and divide it into core tasks and non-core tasks according to the principle of priority;

Next, record the time list in detail. Remember to record the time list.

, let's make an analogy here. Of course, there are more than so few tasks in a week.

this record, you can effectively monitor your time utilization and protect your disposable time. So as to consciously reduce event switching and protect attention.

After all, people's attention is limited. Only when they apply their attention to important things can they not waste their attention.