Product design question
What is your favourite Google product? How would you improve it for the elderly people?
- Product design
- Easy
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What this question tests
Basic product-improvement reasoning combined with an accessibility lens for an underserved age group.
How to approach it
- Pick a specific favorite Google product and state why, to ground the answer concretely rather than answering in the abstract.
- Name a concrete pain point elderly users face with that product, e.g. small text and complex menus in Google Photos making it hard to find and share memories.
- Propose a focused improvement: a simplified, large-text 'easy mode' with fewer, larger tap targets and voice-guided navigation.
- Address the most common elderly use case directly, e.g. easily sharing photos with grandchildren, rather than a generic accessibility settings toggle.
- Define success as task-completion rate for elderly users in usability testing, and reduced support-contact rate as a guardrail.
What a strong answer includes
- Picks one specific product and improvement rather than a vague 'make Google more accessible' answer.
- Ties the improvement to a concrete elderly use case, like sharing photos with family, not a generic settings change.
- Defines success via direct usability testing with the target group, not just an assumption that it helps.
Common mistakes
- Giving a generic accessibility answer, like 'add a larger font option,' with no product specificity.
- Not naming a favorite product at all, missing the first, easy part of the question.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you test this with real elderly users before shipping?
- How would you avoid this becoming a separate, neglected mode that never gets updated?
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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