Pure

Adapting Learning

Personalizing education at scale.

Opportunity

Pearson had spent years exploring the future of education through research, strategy, and emerging technology. The next challenge was turning those ideas into a real product experience.

The company wanted to create an adaptive learning platform that could support teachers and learners across mobile, tablet, and desktop while serving both established and emerging markets.

We worked as an embedded design team alongside product leaders, educators, researchers, and technologists throughout the project.

Approach

The project began with a large body of research developed by Pearson and IDEO around the future of learning. Our role was to help turn those insights into a clear product direction and tangible user experience.

Working across mobile, tablet, and desktop, we designed a platform that balanced the everyday needs of teachers and students with the requirements of the institutions supporting them.

The result was a connected learning platform designed around educational content, adaptive learning, and the realities of modern classrooms.

Learning Platform

A connected experience spanning desktop, tablet, and mobile.

Learning Platform

A connected experience spanning desktop, tablet, and mobile.

Teacher Experience

Tools and workflows designed around real classroom needs.

Teacher Experience

Tools and workflows designed around real classroom needs.

Adaptive Learning

Flexible content and learning paths built to scale globally.

Adaptive Learning

Flexible content and learning paths built to scale globally.

I find myself thinking of the word 'Pure', as the team iterate on your designs. I think it's a great name for your agency and way of working - it's really embedded in what you created.”

Nathan Harris

Director of User Experience & Design

Pearson

Impact

The platform established a stronger digital foundation for adaptive learning while helping align research, content, and technology around real educational needs.

It provided a shared framework that improved consistency across every experience while creating a more scalable foundation for the products Pearson would go on to build.

Shaping

  • Future Vision
  • Product Strategy
  • Learning Frameworks
  • Experience Principles

Designing

  • Experience Design
  • Interaction Design
  • Content Systems
  • Design Systems

Building

  • Desktop Experience
  • Tablet Experience
  • Mobile Experience
  • Adaptive Learning
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