Product design question

Design a product that would be used in the 2020 presidential election.

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

Tests product design under a sensitive, high stakes context: balancing voter usefulness with neutrality and misinformation risk.

Clarify the user: a first time or infrequent voter uncertain about registration, polling location, or ballot content, not political operatives.
State the core problem: fragmented, state specific voting information and rising misinformation about deadlines and eligibility.
Define the product: a nonpartisan voter information hub with registration status lookup, polling location, and verified ballot summaries.
Address the trust constraint explicitly: sourcing only from official state election sites, with clear provenance on every piece of information.
Propose a success metric, such as completed registration checks or reduction in support tickets about deadlines.
Confirm with the interviewer whether this is a standalone product or a feature inside an existing platform like Google or Facebook.

Grounds the product in a specific pain point, voters not knowing their registration status or polling place, which caused real turnout friction in past elections.
Insists on strict source neutrality, pulling only from official Secretary of State data, since credibility is the product's core asset.
Proposes a measurable goal, for example a stated percentage lift in on time registration completions among first time users.
Flags misinformation risk directly and proposes rapid fact correction workflows as part of the design, not an afterthought.

Designing something that looks like a campaign or advocacy tool instead of neutral information infrastructure.
Ignoring the misinformation and trust risk that makes this category different from a normal consumer product.

How would you keep the product neutral across different states and parties?
What would you do if misinformation started spreading faster than you could correct it?