SAT Suite Mobile Score Reports
Product Design, UX Research,
Development, AI
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The Challenge
Design Goals
My Role
Problems Faced
Each year, millions of students access SAT and PSAT scores through the College Board. While the reports accurately communicated test results, they placed the burden on students to interpret those results, identify areas for improvement, and determine their next steps.
Our team set out to redesign the mobile score reporting experience to make results easier to understand, more personalized, and more actionable immediately after students received their scores.
As Product Designer, I designed responsive mobile experiences spanning score reports, personalized learning recommendations, National Merit Scholarship (NMSC) eligibility, edge-case reporting states, and post-score guidance.
Rather than functioning as a traditional score-reporting tool, the app was designed to help students understand their results and confidently take the next step in their educational journey.
Role
Product Designer
Platform
Responsive Mobile Web
Team
Product Design • Product Management • Engineering • Content • Research • User Interviews
The Challenge
Receiving an SAT score is only the beginning of a student's journey.
Students often asked questions like:
What does my score actually mean?
Which skills should I improve?
How do I compare to other students?
Am I eligible for National Merit?
What should I do next?
The existing experience surfaced these answers across multiple sections, but they lacked a clear progression and often required students to interpret complex data on their own.
The challenge became designing an experience that transformed raw score reports into a guided decision-making tool while supporting dozens of score states and eligibility scenarios.
Design Goals
Our goals were to:
✔ Make score reports easier to scan on mobile.
✔ Connect scores directly to personalized practice.
✔ Surface actionable recommendations immediately after students viewed results.
✔ Improve information hierarchy across long-form reports.
✔ Design scalable experiences for numerous National Merit and reporting edge cases.
✔ Maintain consistency across the SAT Suite design system.
My Role
As Product Designer, I collaborated closely with product managers, engineers, and content strategists to redesign the responsive mobile score reporting experience.
Responsibilities included:
End-to-end UX/UI design
Information architecture
Mobile interaction design
Responsive layouts
Component design
Edge-case design
Design QA
Engineering collaboration
Iterative refinement based on stakeholder feedback
Problem 1
Students didn't know what to do after seeing their scores.
One of the largest opportunities was reducing the gap between viewing results and taking action.
Rather than ending the experience with section scores, we introduced a new personalized practice module directly after performance results.
Students could immediately:
Start personalized practice
Focus on Reading & Writing
Practice Math
Continue learning without leaving the experience
This created a stronger connection between assessment and improvement.
Problem 2
Performance data lacked meaningful context.
Students could see individual scores but often struggled to understand which specific skills contributed to those results.
The redesigned Knowledge & Skills experience broke performance into measurable content domains including Algebra, Advanced Math, Problem Solving, Geometry, Reading, and Writing.
Each domain visualized performance bands and linked directly to targeted practice resources.
Rather than presenting a single score, the experience showed students exactly where they could improve.
Problem 3
Students needed context beyond their individual scores.
Scores alone provide limited value without comparison.
The redesigned Score Comparison experience helped students understand how they performed relative to their school, district, state, and national percentiles.
This gave students a clearer understanding of where they stood academically while reducing ambiguity around score interpretation.
Problem 4
Students needed guidance—not just information.
After understanding their scores, students still needed to know what actions to take.
The redesigned experience introduced personalized career insights and clearer next steps, connecting academic performance with future planning.
Recommendations included:
Career exploration
College planning
Practice resources
AP recommendations
Sending official scores
This shifted the experience from passive reporting to active guidance.
Problem 5
The system required extensive edge-case support.
One of the largest design challenges involved supporting numerous reporting scenarios beyond the primary score report.
These included:
National Merit eligibility
Alternative Entry
Accommodation scenarios
Missing Selection Index
Testing irregularities
Pending scores
No scores available
Multiple upcoming score releases
Designing these experiences required creating scalable layouts that remained understandable regardless of a student's unique circumstances.
Design Process
Design Process
I iterated closely with product managers and engineers throughout development.
Feedback cycles included:
Refining information hierarchy
Adjusting spacing and readability
Improving accessibility
Reordering sections based on user priorities
Validating responsive layouts
Supporting production QA through implementation
Outcome
The redesigned mobile score reporting experience transformed SAT results from a static report into a guided experience that helped students understand, interpret, and act on their performance.
The final solution delivered:
Clearer information hierarchy
Personalized practice recommendations
Deeper performance insights
Actionable next steps
Comprehensive support for numerous score states and eligibility scenarios
A scalable responsive system aligned with the broader SAT Suite ecosystem
Outcome