Product design question

Evaluate an app design using these five design principles: Innovative, Understandable, Aesthetic, Honest, Useful.

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

Structured critique using a given rubric, applied to a specific real app rather than restated generically.

Pick a specific, familiar app to evaluate, for example the Amazon shopping app given the interviewer's company.
Innovative: assess if a specific feature, like visual search or 'buy again,' meaningfully differs from competitors or is table stakes.
Understandable: assess if the core search-to-purchase flow is intuitive for a first-time user, noting friction points.
Aesthetic: assess visual clarity honestly, noting real criticism, for example a search results page cluttered with sponsored listings.
Honest: assess whether the design manipulates users, sponsored listings blending with organic results, versus being transparent.
Useful: assess if the app reliably solves the core job, finding and buying the right product quickly.

Applies each principle to a specific, named feature rather than restating the principle generically.
Gives honest, specific criticism, for example sponsored-listing clutter hurting Honest and Aesthetic, not just praise.
Notes a genuine tension between principles, monetization working against Honest and Aesthetic.

Giving generic praise for each principle with no specific evidence from the actual app.
Treating the five principles as independent when they often trade off against each other.

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