Product design question

Pick a cause you are passionate about - example climate change, education, hunger, health, etc. - and design an app for it.

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

Open ended product design that requires the candidate to pick a cause, define a specific user, and justify a focused solution.

Pick one cause with genuine specificity, for example food insecurity, and state why it was chosen.
Define a specific user segment within that cause, such as families relying on local food banks with inconsistent inventory visibility.
Identify the core pain point, like not knowing which food banks currently have needed items in stock before traveling there.
Propose a focused MVP, such as a real time inventory and hours app connecting food banks with families in need nearby.
Define a success metric, such as reduction in wasted trips to food banks without needed items, or increase in banks updating inventory regularly.

Picks a specific, well reasoned cause and explains personally why it matters, rather than a generic save the world answer.
Narrows to one concrete pain point, like inventory visibility, instead of trying to solve the entire cause broadly.
Names a measurable outcome, like reduced wasted trips, that proves the app is actually helping.

Picking a cause but describing an overly broad solution that tries to solve everything at once.
Failing to consider how to get food banks to consistently update their data.

How would you incentivize food banks to keep their data updated?
How would you monetize or sustain this app without a business model that conflicts with the mission?