Product design question
Build an app that can allow parents to find activities for their kids
- Product design
- Easy
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What this question tests
Product design for a two sided family use case, balancing parent trust and control with genuinely useful activity discovery.
How to approach it
- Define the target user, parents seeking age appropriate, local activities for their kids without extensive manual research.
- Identify the core pain point, scattered information across many sources with unclear age fit, cost, and safety information.
- Propose a focused MVP, a local activity search filtered by age, cost, and category with parent reviews for trust.
- Address trust and safety explicitly, since parents need confidence in activity quality and safety before committing.
- Define a success metric, such as activity booking or RSVP rate, or repeat usage rate among parents.
What a strong answer includes
- Anchors on a specific, common pain point, fragmented and untrustworthy activity information, rather than a vague kids app idea.
- Builds trust explicitly into the design, like parent reviews and safety information, recognizing parents' heightened caution.
- Names a concrete outcome metric, booking or RSVP rate, tied to real usage rather than just app downloads.
Common mistakes
- Ignoring trust and safety concerns, which are especially critical for a product serving children's activities.
- Proposing a broad content aggregator without addressing data freshness and accuracy.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you verify the safety and quality of listed activities?
- How would you keep activity listings accurate and up to date?
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Learn the skill behind it
Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 4: Discovery and strategy for AI products
- Chapter 7: AI UX and human oversight: design for a system that is wrong sometimes
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop