Product design question
Build web application / mobile app for doctor consultation.
- Product design
- Medium
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What this question tests
End-to-end product design for a two-sided healthcare marketplace, including trust and supply-demand sequencing.
How to approach it
- Clarify telehealth video consults versus in-person booking, and target geography; confirm with the interviewer if ambiguous.
- Identify both sides: patients needing fast, trustworthy access, and doctors needing full schedules and light admin.
- Map pain points: patients don't know whom to trust or how long the wait is; doctors lose time to no-shows and manual scheduling.
- Prioritize the patient booking flow with doctor verification and real-time availability first, since supply won't join without demand.
- Propose an MVP: search by specialty or symptom, verified profiles, instant booking, and automated reminders to cut no-shows.
- Define success as completed-consultation rate and patient repeat-visit rate.
What a strong answer includes
- Explicitly sequences the supply-versus-demand chicken-and-egg problem rather than designing both sides equally.
- Uses no-show reduction as a concrete doctor-side value prop, for example cutting no-shows from roughly 20% to under 10% as an assumption.
- Ties prioritization to trust signals, verified credentials and ratings, since healthcare is a high-stakes purchase.
Common mistakes
- Designing a generic marketplace without medical credential verification.
- Ignoring doctor-side incentives and workflow.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you handle emergency versus routine care differently?
- What would your MVP look like with only 3 months?
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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