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Change Machine

Product design for a financial health platform combining education, self-reporting, and assessment

Client

The Financial Clinic

Timeline

2012-2017

Role

Art Director, Lead Designer

  • Desktop mockup of the Change Machine homepage
  • Desktop mockup of the Change Machine Coach dashboard and action plan interface for a particular client
  • Desktop mockup of the Change Machine Learn interface, showing a lesson about pulling credit reports
Mockup of the Change Machine Learn dashboard showing lesson progress, badge awards, and link to next lesson
The Learn Dashboard keeps track of your progress through all the lessons.
  • A Change Machine Learn quiz component showing a multiple choice question
  • A Change Machine Learn component showing related resources
Mockup of an interactive posting component for the Change Machine Share interface, allowing other account holders to respond
Share is a sophisticated online community housed within the Change Machine platform and supported by the integration of Salesforce’s Chatter platform. It allows coaches to communicate with each other and with dedicated staff from the Financial Clinic to ask questions and get answers, as well as to propose new areas of study and training and get technical support.

Branding Change Machine

Change Machine primary logo including a stylized piggy bank with a CM monogram incorporated into its nose
Meet Charles.
A sequence of increasingly complex drawings of the piggy bank icon used in the Change Machine branding.
Charles started out as a simple “CM” monogram with a set of dots for eyes during our first round of identity development, but quickly grew into a full-fledged logo and mascot for Change Machine.
Stylized icons representing Learn (a mortarboard), Coach (a clipboard and pencil) and Share (a campfire)
Icons for the three main sections of Change Machine: Learn, Coach, and Share.
Circular badge illustrations representing groups of lessons the user is expected to complete.
Badges for the six sections of Change Machine's Learn: Goals, Assets, Banking, Credit, Debt, and, Taxes. (Badge icons by Zac Overman.)

Ian Crowther is a design director and designer for product, web, and print.