blueprint: THE Goal Setting App

Simplicity and subtleness is the theme of blueprint. blueprint employs a priority star indicator to assign priority levels starting with level 1 that moves up to level 5, each level or star corresponding with its respective priority or urgency. This subtle and smart indication helps optimize focus and resources by diverting them towards the important stuff. It also segregates and differentiate between long-term ambitions and simple errands, preventing distractions, false sense of success, delusion of progress, and most importantly waste of your valuable time and resources. A priority cue makes you aware which goals have the most life-changing impacts and the most ROI value. blueprint also quantifies goals to make them measurable so as to track and visualize goal progress through different stages of goal completion. The progress meter slowly fills up as you complete tasks within your goal strategy i.e. the goal's Action Plan. In addition, It is bi-directional i.e. it can increase or decrease based on the number of unfinished or finished tasks. This simple yet interactive visual cue helps visualize growth and makes progress tracking informative as well as a driving stimulator of action and focus. It manifests the pace and momentum of progress, highlights bottlenecks, and helps spot what is working and what is not. These visual cues fuels your confidence and sustains momentum as you validate and acknowledge long-term progress.

Strategic planning and execution is one of the guiding principles of blueprint. However, often being strategic comes with being rigid and restrictive. Hence, blueprint is designed with the idea of flexibility in order to balance planning with change. The strategic goal setting system of blueprint incorporates Action Plan as the goal strategy, ensuring a clear and guided step-by-step pathway towards success. Small, steady and planned movement towards goal milestones ensure consistent growth and achievement that sustains your momentum, fuels your dedication and reinforces your commitment. At the same time, flexibility provided by blueprint in terms of the order in addressing and prioritizing tasks within goal strategy, prevents rigidness in your movement and facilitates adaptiveness during unexpected turn of events. Being in harmony with change is the most practical approach to goal planning and achievement because things do not always go as planned. Hence, a system that operates under a strategic yet flexible framework is a key feature and speciality of blueprint. Plan your every move with blueprint while moving with the flow of change in life.

The fundamental characteristic of a strategic goal management system is that it keeps things systematic, structured and organized. With blueprint, goals are detailed and assigned with proper attributes i.e. category and priority level. This systematic approach to goal setting produces structured goals with details and labels, resulting in a well-organized goal management system. blueprints can be sorted and filtered based on their respective deadlines, priority levels and goal category. In addition, goal completion or progress level is also taken into consideration to better this strategic goal management approach. All of this implies that goals are organized based on how much you completed, which area or level has greater success or failure and which goals require urgent attention. Keeping things systematic ensures goals are structured with details and proper attributes, further facilitating the organizing and presentation of goals in a strategic manner which will make you more aware, more responsive, more informed and consistently productive.

Analysis and assessment are the foundations for practical strategy. Studying data extensively and interpreting the results accurately, is what produces insight and knowledge. Valid, adequate and random data is crucial for trust and credibility. The Analytics feature of blueprint operates based on statistical data driven analysis to provide better assessment of goal strategy and goal planning approaches. With blueprint, you study past experiences, both achievements and setbacks, through archived goals (after they have either expired or completed). This data-driven approach of statistical analysis enables the study of resource utilization and rate of success or failure based on goal attributes i.e. priority level and category. This can allow resource optimization as you get insights into which goal category or priority demands the most attention and resources in your life and if they have a satisfactory and surplus ROI value. In addition, archiving data for analytics purposes also builds future reference for similar endeavours and betters the rate and pace of success, through valuable perspective gained from both achievements and setbacks.

Minimalism and simplicity is the soul of blueprint. From its design to its features, every aspect of blueprint personifies these two values. Simplicity in the sense that every aspect of its goal setting and management system such as goal structure, goal strategy, statistical analytics, etc. to its core design elements such as visual cues, statistical tools, etc., being easy to use yet subtle and informative. And, Minimalism in the sense that blueprint is not bloated like other apps, where there are tons of sophisticated features and tools that are too difficult to use and most likely, will never be used. However, this does not mean that blueprint is limited and static. An interactive user experience was a core requirement for the design of this app. The option to mark or unmark task completion, adjust deadlines and Action Plan, perform statistical analytics, decide user permissions, archive blueprints for future reference, etc., validate the interactive user experience that blueprint provides despite its minimalistic and simplicity spirit. In fact, it is due to this that provides users the comfort and the ease to explore blueprint to the fullest.

The blueprint app operates based on the idea of goal quantification i.e. making your goal measurable, as it believes goal progress tracking is key for maximizing productivity. blueprint achieves this by processing your goal strategy (Action Plan) completion rate and presenting the outcome via a typical, simple and smart visual indicator i.e. a progress meter. This progress meter is simple and subtle yet very interactive. The meter fills up or drains as you complete or re-visit the tasks in your goal strategy, hence it is also bi-directional. This helps you visualize and witness your progress, evaluate your approach to success, backtrack to certain milestones points or stages and re-do or re-assess the tasks, and ensure steady consistent effort. Goal Progress tracking helps evaluate goal strategy as you gain insight into what is working and what needs improvement through the milestones in the goal Action Plan. Motivation, consistency and confidence are the keystones of success. The fruits of your dedication and hard work helps replenish your motivation, commitment, self-esteem and most importantly, confidence in your own abilities.