Product design question
Design a product for tissue donation.
- Meta
- Product design
- Hard
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What this question tests
Product sense on a low frequency, high emotional stakes domain where trust and process friction matter more than growth loops.
How to approach it
- Confirm the scope: are you designing for living donors, deceased donor registration, or the matching and logistics side.
- Segment users into potential donors, grieving families making a decision, transplant coordinators and recipients.
- Map the journey and find the biggest drop off, likely registration awareness or the family consent conversation at time of death.
- Pick one pain point, for example families not knowing the deceased's wishes in the moment of crisis.
- Propose a solution such as a shareable digital directive plus a hospital facing lookup tool.
- Define a success metric like consent rate among registered donors' families and time to match.
What a strong answer includes
- Names the two very different funnels, living donation and deceased donation, instead of treating tissue donation as one flow.
- Recognizes the emotional context, most conversations happen during grief, so the design must reduce burden, not add forms.
- Proposes a concrete mechanism, e.g. a registry synced to driver's license apps and hospital EHR systems.
- Sets a measurable target, e.g. lifting family consent rate by 10 points, marked as an illustrative assumption.
Common mistakes
- Jumping straight to a matching algorithm before defining who the user is.
- Ignoring the emotional and ethical sensitivity of the topic.
- Proposing a generic marketplace app that ignores medical and legal constraints.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you measure success for this product in the first year.
- How would you handle the ethical review or legal constraints around donor consent.
- What would you cut if you only had three months to ship.
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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