Product design question

Design a product for teenagers to have more empathy.

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What this question tests

Ability to design for a soft, hard-to-measure outcome (empathy) with a concrete mechanism and metric proxy.

Define the user: teenagers navigating social conflict and identity formation, where low empathy shows up as bullying or dismissiveness online and offline.
Identify a concrete mechanism: perspective-taking exercises embedded in a social or messaging context teens already use.
Prioritize one mechanism, like a 'see it from their side' prompt shown before sending a harsh message, over a broad curriculum app.
Design lightweight, non-preachy interactions, since teens disengage from anything that feels like a lecture.
Define a measurable proxy for empathy: reduction in flagged harsh messages sent, or increased use of supportive reactions/comments.
Pilot with schools or youth organizations to validate tone and effectiveness before a broad launch.

Grounds an abstract goal (empathy) in a measurable proxy, like reduced harsh-message sending, rather than an unmeasurable soft outcome.
Proposes a specific, non-preachy mechanism, like a pause-and-reflect prompt, rather than a generic education app teens would ignore.
Gives an illustrative metric, e.g. a 10% drop in retracted or reported messages after prompt exposure, marked as an assumption.
Notes the importance of piloting with real teens and educators to avoid a tone that feels patronizing.

Proposing a content or curriculum-heavy solution that ignores how teens actually behave online.
Picking an outcome with no measurable proxy, making success impossible to evaluate.

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