One of the 243 portraits · LMHMH
The Designer
I draw precise lines around large ideas.
You draw precise lines around big ideas.
You draw precise lines around large, imaginative ideas, preferring to work alone over explaining yourself as you go. You stay level under setbacks and treat fairness as a rule to follow rather than a feeling to wait for.
Precise · Imaginative · Even-Tempered
The five together
You draw precise lines around large ideas, prefer working alone to explaining, take setbacks in stride, and treat fairness as a rule rather than a feeling.
The Designer's result is high on Conscientiousness and Openness, low on Extraversion and in the middle on Agreeableness and Emotional Stability. Each band is wide on purpose: a score near a boundary can fall either side on a retake, and the portrait describes the pattern, not a precise point.
About 3 in 1,000 people
0.26% of a reference sample of 596,850 adults share this combination. The Designer is an uncommon combination.
Bands are relative to a general adult reference sample. Honesty-Humility is measured in your Snapshot and appears in your report; it is not part of the portrait.
What The Designer might recognize
- You can take a sprawling idea and organize it into something exact without losing what made it interesting.
- You would rather work through a problem alone first and explain your reasoning only once it is settled.
A question worth keeping
What would you build if you trusted an idea enough to share it before every line was already exact?
Six lenses
The Designer in relationships, at work, and under stress.
In relationships
What you bring, what you need, where it strains.
These six lenses on The Designer come with the membership.
Written for this exact combination, alongside 90 trait pages, a strengths constellation and a growth plan.
Read them in the membershipOne band away
Move a single dimension and the portrait changes. These are the ten neighbours of The Designer.
- Extraversion mediumThe Researcher
- Extraversion highThe Producer
- Agreeableness lowThe Cartographer
- Agreeableness highThe Botanist
- Conscientiousness lowThe Onlooker
- Conscientiousness mediumThe Bookworm
- Emotional Stability lowThe Illustrator
- Emotional Stability highThe Scientist
- Openness lowThe Timekeeper
- Openness mediumThe Archivist
The traits behind The Designer
A portrait is a pattern across five measured dimensions. Every trait is reported as a percentile against the reference sample; the three bands and the portrait name exist to make the result easier to talk about, and the percentile is always shown alongside. Each dimension has its own page explaining what it means, what the research says it predicts, and how it can change.
- Quiet band, below the 30th percentileWhat is Extraversion?
How much you enjoy being around people, talking, and doing lively things, and how much energy that gives you.
- Balanced band, 30th to 70th percentileWhat is Agreeableness?
How kind, trusting, and cooperative you tend to be with other people, and how much you put getting along ahead of getting your way.
- High band, above the 70th percentileWhat is Conscientiousness?
How organised, careful, and reliable you are about getting things done and keeping your promises.
- Balanced band, 30th to 70th percentileWhat is Emotional Stability?
How calm and even you usually feel, and how quickly you bounce back when something upsets you.
- High band, above the 70th percentileWhat is Openness?
How much you enjoy new ideas, art, imagination, and experiences that are different from what you already know.
The Snapshot also measures Honesty-Humility, which appears in your report but is not part of the portrait code. How much you tell the truth, play fair, want only your fair share, and avoid showing off, even when you could get away with more.
Questions about The Designer
- What is the Designer personality?
- The Designer is one of the 243 Wellington portraits: a pattern of bands across the five Big Five dimensions rather than a fixed type. I draw precise lines around large ideas. You draw precise lines around large ideas, prefer working alone to explaining, take setbacks in stride, and treat fairness as a rule rather than a feeling.
- How common is The Designer?
- 0.26% of a reference sample of 596,850 adults share this combination. The Designer is an uncommon combination among the 243 portraits in the reference sample, and the share will move as the norming sample grows.
- How do I find out if I am The Designer?
- Take the free Wellington Snapshot: 60 questions, about 7 minutes. You answer all the questions first, then you sign in with an email so your answers are saved and your results can be shown. There is no card. Your free results name your portrait and show your five dimensions.
- Is The Designer a personality type?
- Not in the sense of a box you are sorted into. Wellington measures continuous traits and reports each as a percentile against a reference sample. The Designer names the combination of bands your scores fall in, and a score near a band boundary can land on either side on a retake. Wellington describes ordinary variation in personality; it is not a diagnosis and is not designed for hiring. Read more about types and traits
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