Product design question
Design a product that helps people become healthier.
- Meta
- Product design
- Medium
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What this question tests
Tests broad health-and-wellness ideation with the discipline to narrow to one segment and one behavior change mechanism.
How to approach it
- Narrow the vague prompt: pick one specific behavior, like consistent daily movement, rather than a catch-all health app.
- Segment on people who know they should exercise but struggle with consistency, not people who are already highly active.
- Identify the pain point: motivation fades after the first few weeks without social accountability or visible progress.
- Design small-group accountability circles, friends or coworkers sharing a simple daily activity streak, with light social nudges, not shame-based ones.
- Define success as streak retention at 30 and 90 days, and group-level adherence compared to solo users.
What a strong answer includes
- Narrows an intentionally broad prompt to one specific behavior and mechanism instead of listing generic wellness features.
- Grounds the design in a known behavior-change principle, social accountability, rather than pure self-tracking.
- Picks longer-horizon retention, 30 and 90 days, as the real test of habit formation, not just day-one signups.
Common mistakes
- Proposing a generic all-in-one health tracker without picking one specific behavior to target.
- Measuring only short-term engagement instead of habit retention over a longer window.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you avoid social accountability turning into shame or unhealthy comparison?
- How would you monetize this without adding friction to the habit loop?
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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