Giant Steps helps teachers and their students learn more effectively through retrieval practice and gamification.

Our team partnered with GoGuardian to design and develop a compelling and digitally-enhanced learning experience that turns practice into play. We ideated, prioritized, and designed 13 features that spanned the teacher and student management experiences.

From the start, our goal has been to design and build an adaptable, equitable, and engaging experience to enable effective learning through retrieval practice.

Turning practice into play

With collaboration and iteration at the core, our cross-disciplinary team of designers, strategists, producers, writers, and engineers designed, tested, and revised design hypotheses, for teacher and students.

Throughout the project, we worked at varying levels of fidelity, refining and improving upon the foundation of our design system, interaction patterns, and functionality.

Rapid design iteration

Teachers and students at the center

User research was embedded from beginning to end, helping ensure that the end-product is not only usable, but valuable and compelling for teachers and their students alike.

We conducted a total of 8 research sprints, in which we recruited a diverse pool of teachers and students within our key target audiences across the country—paying special attention to diversity in terms of ethnicity, gender, region, and school district.

Our team developed and refined a design system based on a bold and warm color palette, with organic shapes and details that inspire joy and nostalgia. The system includes an extended color palette, new illustrations and a rich typographic system.

The Giant Steps design system library includes functional tooling such as buttons, tooltips, toasts & badges. As well as an extended color palette and rich illustrations. The typographic system allows for the creation of rich brand moments and highly functional typographic treatments.