Case Study: Pearson achieves lean, rapid education app design with MURAL

Education Design Across Borders

Pearson partnered with Save the Children and the Jordanian Ministry of Education to design Space Hero, an app-based learning game for Syrian refugees and vulnerable Jordanian children. A small, distributed Pearson design team had limited volunteer hours and faced a tight timeline to synthesize ethnographic research, journey mapping outputs, and game-design work—so they turned to Mural and its digital canvases to keep collaboration going asynchronously.

Mural provided structured, asynchronous digital workspaces that let the team digitize journey mapping, storyboard math puzzles, and collect field-research materials, enabling deliverables to be completed in weeks rather than months. Using Mural, Pearson guided a complex, multi-stakeholder volunteer project from ideation to delivery, improving speed and efficiency and allowing the team to collaborate across the globe when in-person meetings weren’t possible.

Pearson

Jen Moher Sepulveda

Senior UX Designer