Career Navigator

Project description

The Sustainable Employability project (developed with BeauAvis) focuses on creating an accessible, interactive web tool, the Career Navigator, that helps practically skilled workers recognize, visualize, and develop their professional skills. Through simple, swipe-based interactions and clear visual feedback, users build a personal skill profile that connects to relevant job and learning opportunities. The tool is designed for people with low digital literacy and can be used independently or with a coach, promoting motivation, reflection, and long-term employability.

Context

The project is developed within Fontys Innovations Insight in collaboration with BeauAvis and sits in the domain of sustainable employability and career guidance. The target users practically skilled workers who want to orient, switch, or grow in their career and benefit from skill-based guidance rather than relying only on job titles. The key context challenge is making the experience understandable and actionable: users should be able to move from “what I can do” to “what roles fit me” and “what steps can I take next” without getting overwhelmed. Because the outcomes can influence real decisions, the interface needs to be clear, easy to read, consistent, and trustworthy, while keeping the product flexible for future updates.

Results

We delivered a working web POC prototype with a complete user flow: a home entry point that routes users to a skill selection experience, followed by a career selection phase, and a results page that generates a career path.

The results experience translates user input into an overview that supports decision-making, such as suggested roles and development directions (e.g., courses or learning steps) presented as a structured roadmap. Validation was performed through iterative feedback moments such as reviews with stakeholders and internal test sessions. Key improvements were based on findings around clarity of steps, scannability of results, and consistency across pages.

About the project group

We are a multidisciplinary student team with both UX/design and software development skills. We worked in short iterations where research and stakeholder feedback informed design decisions, and those designs were implemented quickly using reusable frontend components.