Product design question
How would you build a product to help people travel?
- Meta
- Product design
- Easy
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What this question tests
Tests broad product ideation with the discipline to pick one segment and pain point rather than a generic travel app.
How to approach it
- Narrow the ambiguous prompt: focus on trip planning and in-destination navigation for leisure travelers, not booking or loyalty programs.
- Segment on solo and small-group travelers visiting an unfamiliar city for the first time.
- Identify the pain point: fragmented planning across many apps, maps, reviews, translation, with no single source of context while actually walking around.
- Propose a location-aware companion that surfaces nearby recommendations, translates on the fly, and adapts an itinerary in real time based on where the traveler actually is.
- Define success as itinerary items completed versus planned, and daily active use during the trip window itself.
What a strong answer includes
- Narrows a deliberately vague prompt to one specific segment and moment, in-destination navigation, instead of a generic all-in-one app.
- Identifies fragmentation across existing tools as the real pain point rather than assuming no solutions exist.
- Picks a usage metric tied to the actual trip window, not generic download or signup numbers.
Common mistakes
- Proposing a vague catch-all travel app without picking a specific pain point.
- Ignoring that many point solutions, Google Maps, Google Translate, TripAdvisor, already exist and must be differentiated against.
Likely follow-up questions
- How is this different from just using Google Maps and Google Translate together?
- How would you monetize this without disrupting the in-trip experience?
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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