The formation of a personal identity represents a fundamental task in human development. Personal identity revolves around the commitment to goals, beliefs, and values that are central to who one is. Starting from adolescence and continuing into young adulthood, people envision their life and reflect on their career path. Given the fast-paced demands young people face nowadays, having a clear set of identity commitments related to career is often challenging. The present study investigates how best to leverage mobile apps to support young adults with their career goals. By combining theories from psychology literature with research on HCI, this exploratory study aimed to design and develop a self-tracking app prototype for monitoring career goals and investigate its potential influence on young adults’ identity commitments. The InstaGoal app's design included features which encouraged self-reflection, such as goal appraising, journal, log of past use, and reminders to engage. Using quantitative and qualitative analyses, the study's results revealed that the InstaGoal app represents a promising avenue for strengthening the adaptive identity commitments. Limitations, theoretical, and practical implications are discussed.

个人身份的形成是人类发展的一项基本任务。个人身份围绕着对目标，信念和价值观的承诺而定，而目标，信念和价值观是一个人的核心。从青春期开始，一直延续到年轻成年，人们开始设想自己的生活并反思自己的职业道路。鉴于当今年轻人面临的节奏快节奏的要求，与职业相关的明确的身份承诺集通常是具有挑战性的。本研究调查了如何最好地利用移动应用程序来支持年轻人的职业目标。通过将心理学文献的理论与关于HCI的研究相结合，该探索性研究旨在设计和开发用于监视职业目标并研究其对年轻人的身份承诺的潜在影响的自跟踪应用程序原型。InstaGoal应用” 的设计包括鼓励自我反省的功能，例如目标评估，日记，过去使用记录和参与提醒。使用定量和定性分析，研究结果表明InstaGoal应用程序代表了增强适应性身份承诺的有希望的途径。讨论了局限性，理论和实践意义。