Product design question

What is a product you currently use every day, why and how would you improve it?

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What this question tests

Ability to articulate genuine, specific product critique grounded in daily personal use.

How to approach it

  1. Pick one specific product used daily, ideally something with enough depth to critique meaningfully, not a trivial example.
  2. Explain concretely why it earns daily use: the specific job it does and why alternatives don't do it as well.
  3. Identify one genuine friction point experienced firsthand, not a hypothetical or minor nitpick.
  4. Propose a focused improvement addressing that friction, scoped realistically rather than a full redesign.
  5. Explain the expected impact of the improvement on your own or similar users' experience.

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