Pearson

UX/UI and front-end development for CHORUS, a Pearson digital application designed to support an international user base through a flexible, branded interface.

Introduction

Pearson is one of the world’s major education and learning organisations, operating across international markets. My work with Pearson involved the CHORUS application, combining user-interface design with hands-on front-end development to help create a structured and usable digital experience.

The project required an interface capable of supporting different themes and a broad international audience, providing another opportunity to combine UX/UI thinking with the practical implementation of a substantial web application. The surviving project files include multiple themed interfaces, international assets and dedicated Pearson branding for CHORUS.

Designing for an International Audience

The Pearson CHORUS project involved creating a user interface for an application intended to support users across different international markets. This meant thinking beyond the appearance of individual screens and considering how the interface could remain clear, consistent and usable while accommodating different content and branding requirements.

The project provided another example of the importance of building flexibility into the user experience from the outset, particularly when an application needs to operate across a large organisation.

Combining UX/UI with Front-End Development

My involvement combined UX/UI design with hands-on front-end development. This allowed design decisions to be considered alongside their practical implementation, helping ensure that the interface was not only visually effective but could also be developed and maintained efficiently.

The application incorporated a theming approach that allowed the interface to support different visual identities while retaining a consistent underlying structure. This helped provide the flexibility required for a product serving a varied international audience.

Designing Systems, Not Just Screens

Projects such as CHORUS reinforced an important principle that has continued throughout my consultancy work: effective UX/UI is often about designing a coherent system rather than a collection of individual pages.

Reusable interface patterns, consistent behaviour and a well-structured front-end can make a digital product easier for users to understand and easier for development teams to evolve over time.

Read the Full Project Story

This article provides a short introduction to my work on the Pearson CHORUS project. For more information about the project, my role and the wider professional context, read the full Pearson project page on Mike-Speight.co.uk.