Product design question

How would you design a product to help people relocate during pandemics like the COVID-19?

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What this question tests

Whether you can design for a crisis-driven need with urgency and trust constraints unique to a pandemic context.

Clarify the trigger: people relocating for safety, cost, or remote work during a pandemic, and pick one primary driver to design for.
Segment users: renters forced to move quickly with little income certainty versus remote workers choosing to relocate opportunistically.
Identify pain points specific to the moment: limited in-person viewings, health risk, and financial uncertainty around signing a lease.
Prioritize the safety and trust problem, since it blocks action even when a good listing exists.
Propose a concrete feature: verified virtual tours plus flexible, short-term lease matching for uncertain-income movers.
Define success metrics: time from search to signed lease, and a guardrail on canceled or disputed leases.

Picks one clear driver, forced relocation for safety, rather than trying to serve every possible relocation reason at once.
Names the pandemic-specific blocker, inability to view homes in person safely, as the core problem to solve.
Gives an illustrative number, assuming 30 percent of movers could not complete an in-person viewing during lockdowns.
Proposes flexible lease terms as a direct answer to income uncertainty, not just a virtual tour feature alone.

Designing a generic relocation app that ignores what specifically changed during a pandemic.
Ignoring the financial uncertainty renters faced, focusing only on the logistics of viewing homes.

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