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Signal-Type: An AI-assisted self-led career mapping and reflection tool for Communication Designers.

  • Writer: rahul bhattacharya
    rahul bhattacharya
  • Jul 9, 2025
  • 3 min read

Updated: Jul 30, 2025

Signal-Type - Find your design direction.
Signal-Type - Find your design direction.

How to Use Signal-Type - Communication Design Career Mapping Tool

Signal-Type is a self-led AI-assisted Communication Design career mapping tool that uses self-reflection as its key methodology.

  • It helps you figure out what kind of designer you're becoming by observing what excites you.

  • It helps you map your creative signals and find clarity, whether you’re looking for an internship, a job, or just direction.

  • You don’t need a perfect portfolio or a fixed plan. You just need curiosity and 15 quiet minutes.


Step-by-Step


🌟 STEP 1 — Choose Your Goal

When the page loads, you’ll be asked to choose:

  • Internship — if you're still exploring

  • Job — if you're preparing to enter the profession

This choice affects how the AI mentors you..

📊 STEP 2 — Take the Quiz

You’ll go through 7 creative scenario questions, one by one. Each question gives 9 options — all mapped secretly to design domains:

  • A → Graphic Design

  • B → Branding & Identity

  • C → UX Design

  • D → UI Design

  • E → Experiential/Spatial

  • F → Illustration

  • G → Audio-Visual Storytelling

  • H → Immersive/XR Design

  • I → Motion Graphics

🎯 There are no right or wrong answers. Go with your instincts. Your responses help build your design signal profile.


🧠 STEP 3 — Talk to the Mentor-Bot

After the quiz, you’ll enter a conversational reflection loop with an AI mentor.

This isn’t just chat. It’s structured. You’ll move through 5 reflection stages, each building on the last:

  1. Working Direction — e.g., "interaction-first brand storyteller"

  2. Hidden Signals — "Did we miss something you care about?"

  3. Identity Sentence — "I want to be a designer who…"

  4. Portfolio Anchors — "What work shows this?"

  5. Emotional Checkpoint — "What are you letting go of? What excites you?"

The mentor speaks plainly. Like a studio senior. If you’re vague, it calls you out — kindly but clearly.


🎯 STEP 4 — Leave With Clarity

By the end of your session, you’ll walk away with:

  • A map of your design instincts across 9 domains

  • A working identity title for your current practice

  • 2–3 project ideas to develop

  • A short summary of your direction

  • One fear released, one thing you’re excited for

  • Get a Personalised Mentor Chat - Based on your answers, an AI mentor guides you through short reflective prompts:

  • Type Your Responses - It’s a conversation. Think of it as a mini studio crit with a senior mentor.

  • Reset Anytime - Click the ↻ icon (top-right) to start over if you want to reflect again.


💡 Tips for Best Use

  • Use on desktop/laptop — the layout’s not mobile-optimised yet

  • Use headphones if reflecting in a public space

  • Don’t overthink your answers — trust your creative gut

  • If it gets murky, restart the tool — that’s part of the process

  • Save your final reflections — they can shape your portfolio, CV, or direction letter


FAQs

1. Is this a test or a career quiz?

 Nope. Signal-Type doesn’t judge or score you. It maps your instincts and interests across different domains of Communication Design to help you reflect, not label.

2. What if more than one option feels right? Go with the one that pulls you most strongly at that moment. There are no perfect answers—just patterns

3. Can I use this more than once?

 Absolutely. You can restart using the ↻ button anytime. Try it again after a few weeks or post-internship to see how your instincts shift

4. What if my preferred design area doesn’t show up?

 That’s fine—there’s space in the reflection chat to bring in anything the quiz missed. Use that moment to describe your unique interest

5. Is my data saved or shared?

 No. Nothing is stored or tracked. Everything stays on your screen unless you choose to copy or share your reflections.


🧠 Signal-Type doesn’t predict your future. It helps you name your present.

Use it as often as you need. Your direction can shift. So can your signals.


Designed and created by Rahul Bhattacharya as a part of dotai's education initiative. Signal-Type is copiloted on Gemini Pro via the Gemini API. It runs on a custom prompt structure and task flow that blends instinctive quiz logic with mentor-style chat, enabling reflective, role-specific guidance for design students.

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