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ChangeMaker Design

Collaborating to design a future that is healthy, fair and inspiring for all.

ChangeMaker Design is dedicated to fostering connection, equity, innovation and sustainability. We are committed to collaborating toward a better world, one human-centered design project at a time.

Trees From Above

Portfolio

Eye to Eye
Flashcards

The Gender & Sex Edition is an interactive analog learning tool that translates dense conceptual quotes from some of our greatest academic thinkers into words that most English-speaking people can understand.​

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ChangeMaker Design led two initiatives for this educational organization which offers arts enrichment programming for seven schools in New York City.

Collaborative, human-centered design process to develop institutional voice for the organization

Collaborative team effort to design the organization’s first communications calendar

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Zookeeper’s
Apprentice

A remote gaming solution developed to combat social isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic. The game connects grandparents with grandchildren through a fun game they can play together, while children visit the zoo with parents, and grandparents play from home.

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Time Wheel:
An ADHD Project

A system developed to help a stressed single parent manage the demands and schedules of two teens with ADHD, who were struggling through remote learning during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The project included designing a “time-wheel” for in-person and remote learning days, that incorporated healthy routines for work and play, while ensuring enough quality sleep for mom and kids.

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Dinner and Dessert,
a Gathering

An event and guide to foster social connection and boost political activism among friends and neighbors. The guide helps people organize small, fun, decentralized gatherings to offer mutual support and empower friends to take more frequent political action together.

About Noël

The ChangeMaker

Noël Jones – ChangeMaker Design

šNoël Jones is certified in Advanced Design Thinking, and holds a Master's Degree in New Arts Journalism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She offers specialized expertise in UX writing and research,  museum interpretation, and experiential learning. Born and raised in Alaska, and now living next to Lake Michigan in Chicago, Noël is inspired by nature, arts and culture, and her fellow collaborators.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~Margaret Mead

"We are the ones we have been waiting for." ~June Jordan

©2025 ChangeMaker Design. Noël Jones. All rights reserved. Chicago, IL

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