Product design question
Build something for physical wellness.
- Meta
- Product design
- Hard
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What this question tests
Tests open-ended product design: picking a specific wellness problem and user rather than a vague fitness app.
How to approach it
- Narrow 'physical wellness' to a specific problem, like sedentary remote workers building a movement habit.
- Identify the pain: motivation and accountability drop off after the first week, not lack of content.
- Decide the core mechanic: social accountability with friends, sharing a daily movement streak, using the social graph.
- Prioritize habit-formation features, streaks and friend nudges, over a large content library in v1.
- Design the flow: connect a wearable or manual log, share with an opt-in friend group, gentle nudges on missed days.
- Define success as 4-week habit retention, the share still logging weekly, not one-time signups.
What a strong answer includes
- Narrows to a specific, well-known drop-off problem instead of a generic fitness app pitch.
- Leverages the social graph for accountability instead of competing on content with fitness-specific apps.
- Picks a retention-based success metric, the real measure of habit-building products.
Common mistakes
- Building a generic workout-video app that ignores the platform's actual strengths.
- Measuring success by signups instead of sustained habit formation.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you keep this from feeling competitive or shaming for less active friends?
- How would you integrate with existing wearables?
- What would make a user churn after a few weeks?
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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