Idea: Add IDG self assessment so people can see which skills they need to practice

[Greenheart]

Important insights while exploring options:

• try to use similar labeling
• it must be trustworthy, competent, reviewed, accessible (free and open source)

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• This will help users/organizations who are not sure where to start - we can pre-populate IDG skills based on test results

• we might need to show different versions if you are an individual or organization.

• Idea: When people complete the self-assessment, they get a link button or link that they can click to see the relevant tools in IDG.tools.

• Technically: Open https://idg.tools/#<anonymized result as base64 JSON string>

• Opening this link could parse the result and filter out the tools to improve the skills that are lowest.

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Visualization:

• Show a circle around an empty center (where the current date is shown), where all 23 skills has the color of the category, and an equally sized section of the circle. Each circle section (representing each skill) grows further out from the center the higher the test result for that skill.

Features for individuals:

• Possible to export as image and text file
• Possibility to open a previous test result in IDG.tools later in order to compare your results. See before and after, maybe visualized as the difference between the two circles placed on top of each other.
• Potentially generate a unique ID for each test result, to make it possible to combine with multiple other results, and know which one of them is your personal one.

Features for organizations:

• Compare the visualization with other people in your team/organization - show the area to focus improvements on, and where they can celebrate having come further already.
• For organizations, maybe this should be a premium feature, since it requires significantly more resources to develop and maintain compared to other features. Need to discuss more.
• Maybe sharing a private link where everyone can do their test and save the results, which will then allow the results to be viewed on a separate page connected to that link. Ideally, without any PII, though comments reflecting on the results would be ideal. Maybe store everything end-to-end encrypted so only the people with the link can read the test results. Then use
• Another option is to have everything as a frontend app, allowing facilitators to gather the input files from their participants, and then combining them in a specific result view. Though this would expose potentially sensitive data (PII) to employers/your team leads. Would be important to keep the data safe in that case.

[Greenheart]

As a start, one way to create a self-assessment would be to adapt reflection questions like the ones shared by Thomas Jordan: LinkedIn post

PDF: IDG reflection questions by Thomas Jordan.pdf

[Greenheart]

Idea: Maybe track local progress offline, with support for exporting your progress as a file you can download as a backup. No accounts to fully respect privacy and user freedom. Standard data format (JSON) that can be used in other ways.

However, gamification is not relevant at this time. That's better suited to build into 29k or similar apps.

[Greenheart]

One way to frame this feature in the context of creating a guided experience for people who are entering IDG.tools from different contexts:

A good way to introduce new people to learn about the IDG framework, maybe do a self-assessment to find the IDG dimensions and skills they want to practice. Then showing them recommended tools to start with. This could be an guided experience integrated directly on IDG.tools. There could potentially also be different versions of this guided experience to adapt to organizational contexts, education, IDG community, or the general public. These different versions could be selected depending on how familiar you are with the IDGs and also your context.

[Greenheart]

This implementation could be used as inspiration: https://github.com/Greenheart/lifewheel

We could use the 23 IDG symbols to represent each skill. This would be a nice small detail to make it relevant for the IDG:s. And of course, the colors for different dimensions. Probably get the color for each skill, and ignore the concept of dimensions. Then in the color logic, handle cases for different dimensions.