Project Overview
Pearson Prep is a mobile-first solution to help student study. By bringing together a student's course and study materials (both author-provided& student-created), giving them a place to start, and enabling them to target what they need to learn most when they can learn it best.
Process
Involved in ideation, research, and validation phases, worked with PM, Learning Design, and Prototyper to create working demos for research. Then move forward with production and continue to improve and iterate through product cycles.
Timeline
Mobile: iOS & Android: Available in the Apple app store & Google Play store
Desktop version release in the 4th quarter of 2019.
Key features
● Pre-made Expert Decks
● Auto-create flashcards from class notes
● Manual create individual flashcards
● Adaptive practice
Site Maps
In order to make sense of the product criteria and features, sitemap design helps the product team, stakeholders, and developers to have an overview and the scope of the effort. With the sitemap approved, we translated it into the UI screen to ensure the functions are properly represented.
Sitemap help dev and product team understand the general flow
Results
One initial key metric was getting to a live working mobile & desktop app for a 2,000-person beta test in 10 weeks.
The Prep product was a success in that it validated that students desired additional study content and were willing to pay for it if it was high quality. We received 13.2k subscribers in the first 3 months and made 26K revenue on the premiums decks purchased. his, in part, led to Channels.
The expert decks themselves were subsequently rolled into the P+ version of eText due to their success. As of today, the app is integrated into the Pearson Plus reading experience, and the app was removed for revenue generation purposes. In retrospect, we made the first app for Pearson Higher Ed to release in the app store and receive revenue.