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2025 midyear goals

2025 Goals

2-3 goals with one being focused on AI

Potential Areas for Focus

  • AI
  • Design System
  • Accessibility
  • Analytics
  • Architecture
  • Platform Extensibility

Criteria

  • SMART
    • well defined time frame
    • well defined deliverable

AI

Goal: Ship one AI-powered feature or prototype (user-facing or internal) that improves workflow efficiency or UX.

Why: Builds applied AI experience. Informs the business of AI applicability through learnings. Contributes tangible value to the platform.

Supporting Actions:

  • Identify 2-3 AI opportunity areas
  • Validate one idea with stakeholder feedback and feasability review.
  • Build prototype and iterate to launch

Deliverable(s): Production-ready AI feature or internal tool + demo + learnings doc

Timeline: Idea validated and prototyped by Q3, Shipped by Q4

Design System

Goal: Establish and document 3 high-impact UI/UX patterns in the design system and refactor key flows to adopt them.

Why: Improve design consistency for user experience and developer velocity

Supporting Actions:

  • Audit current patterns across core app workflows
  • Identify pattern gaps (ie Layout, Cards, Iconography)
  • Collaborate with product design on visual specs, conventions, etc
  • Document patterns in Storybook
  • Create plan to migrate 2-3 core areas of the app to use new patterns

Deliverable(s): Pattern documentation in Storybook + plan for migration in code

Timeline: Audit complete by Q3, Documentation and plan by Q4

Seperately, we're ready to begin implementing new Typography system.

Accessibility

Goal: Establish accessibility best practices and ensure 100% of new features meet WCAG 2.2 AA standards

Why: Build functional and inclusive UI, reduce tech debt, expand market reach and competetivness through improved compliance.

Supporting Actions:

  • Complete relevant training, education, and/or certification
  • Create checklist and/or automation tools to verify new feature compliance
  • Partner with QE to add accessibility reviews to process
  • Host 1 team learning session

Deliverable(s): Shared checklist/doc + automation/tooling + proof of compliance on shipped features

Timeline: Docs by Q3, adoption of process by Q4

Analytics

Ideas...

  • Standardize analytics strategy
  • Identify various business needs and stakeholders
  • Create plan for implementing new analytics approach including any necessary code refactors

Goal Supporting Actions Deliverable
Goal 1
Goal 2
Goal 3

Template

Goal: [Brief, clear statement]

Why: [Value to team/platform/company + personal growth]

Supporting Actions: [Bullet list of what I'll do]

Deliverable(s): [What I'll produce]

Timeline: [Key milestones or deadline]

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