Pear Deck Learning
Consolidating four ed-tech products into one learning ecosystem
What the rebuild covered
GoGuardian owned four separate ed-tech products—Pear Deck, Giant Steps, Edulastic, and TutorMe— each shipped as independent brands. I helped build a single platform for a new learning brand that would consolidate the four products into one ecosystem of learning products.
One domain instead of four
Before four products could read as one platform, each one still needed to hold its own identity inside a shared shell. Koto led the brand unification layer, defining color rules and an illustration style per product, enough to read as one family, but distinct enough that a teacher could easily tell which tool they were in.
Multiple doors in
Before the redesign, the four products each had their own domain. The approach was to define one information architecture that could hold every product without being organized around the products themselves.
Navigation runs on two axes instead of one—by user (educators, schools and districts, tutors) and by use case (engagement, differentiated practice, assessment, data warehousing, lesson planning)—so a single product can surface in as many places as it’s actually relevant.
Design system
I helped consolidate four products into one platform system, shared templates and navigation data, consistent grid and type, plus configurable components that made page assembly faster and easier to maintain
Outcomes
Shipped: four GoGuardian products — Pear Deck, Giant Steps, Edulastic, TutorMe — unified onto one platform.
Used by educators, school and district administrators, and tutors, each entering through a different axis.
Pear Start, an AI lesson-planning product, joined after launch as a new node in Products and a new entry on the use-case axis. No re-architecture.
