Product design question

Design a post-Coronavirus supermarket.

Practice this question out loud. An AI interviewer asks it, follows up like a real interviewer would, and scores your answer. Type or speak.

What this question tests

Forward looking product design responding to a shift in consumer behavior and safety expectations after a major disruption.

Clarify the driving change: post pandemic shoppers became more comfortable with contactless and app assisted shopping, and value speed and reduced physical contact more than before.
Segment shoppers: health cautious shoppers wanting minimal contact versus convenience shoppers wanting faster checkout regardless of health concerns.
Prioritize frictionless, contactless checkout as the core need, since it serves both segments simultaneously.
Propose a supermarket with app based scan and go checkout, contactless payment only, and optional curbside pickup lanes integrated with the same app.
Address a secondary need: real time store crowding data shown in the app so shoppers can choose lower traffic times.
Define success as checkout time reduction and adoption rate of the scan and go feature among regular shoppers.

Identifies a real behavioral shift, comfort with contactless and app assisted shopping, as the design driver rather than generic modernization.
Proposes a concrete mechanism, scan and go checkout, that serves both health cautious and convenience focused segments at once.
Gives an illustrative number, for example assuming average checkout time drops from 8 minutes to 3 minutes.
Adds a secondary, low cost feature, real time crowding data, addressing a genuine remaining concern.

Designing generic supermarket improvements unrelated to the actual post pandemic behavioral shift the question asks about.
Ignoring that not all shoppers adopted app based shopping equally, and not addressing the segment who still prefer traditional checkout.

Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.