Product design question
What’s a product you dislike but have to use everyday? How would you improve it? How would you get it to the market?
- Product design
- Medium
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What this question tests
Whether the candidate can critique a real product with specificity and turn frustration into an actionable plan.
How to approach it
- Name a specific product used daily and the specific pain point, not a vague 'it's clunky' complaint.
- Explain the impact of that pain point on your daily use, like wasted time or repeated errors.
- Propose a concrete fix addressing the root cause of the frustration, not just a cosmetic change.
- Explain how you'd validate the fix would actually help before building it, like a quick user survey.
- Describe a lightweight go-to-market plan, such as an in-app announcement and phased rollout to test reception.
What a strong answer includes
- Names a specific product and a specific recurring frustration, like a banking app's slow multi-step transfer flow.
- Proposes a fix addressing the root friction, not a superficial visual change.
- Includes a validation step before building, showing product discipline rather than jumping straight to a solution.
- Describes a realistic, scoped rollout plan rather than an unrealistic full relaunch.
Common mistakes
- Naming a product but giving only a vague complaint with no specific pain point.
- Proposing a fix with no plan to validate it would actually solve the problem.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you prioritize this fix against other things the team could build?
- How would you know if your fix actually worked after launch?
More product design questions
- Design a TV for a car.Google · Product design · Hard
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- Redesign Twitter for eCommerce.Shopify · Product design · Hard
- How would you go about designing a new location sharing app for Google?Google · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve Google Home?Google · Product design · Easy
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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