Product design question
You are a PM at Lyft. Design a product to assist with patient transportation.
- Lyft
- Product design
- Medium
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What this question tests
Product design for a specialized transportation use case with higher stakes than a typical rideshare trip.
How to approach it
- Clarify the user: non-emergency patients needing rides to appointments, including elderly and mobility-limited riders.
- List pain points: standard rideshare drivers are not trained for wheelchairs, missed appointments hurt health outcomes, and payment often runs through insurance or clinics.
- Segment by need: ambulatory patients needing a simple ride versus wheelchair or stretcher patients needing special vehicles.
- Design core features: vehicle type filtering, appointment-linked scheduling, and driver training or certification badges.
- Address payment: integration with clinics or insurers for direct billing rather than the patient paying and filing for reimbursement.
- Define success as missed appointment rate reduction and on-time pickup rate for scheduled medical rides.
What a strong answer includes
- Segments patients by mobility need, since wheelchair transport requires different vehicles and driver training than an ambulatory ride.
- Proposes direct billing integration with clinics, addressing a real friction point patients face today with reimbursement.
- Names a concrete outcome metric, missed appointment rate, tying the product to a real health system cost.
- Considers driver certification as a trust and safety requirement, not an optional nice to have.
Common mistakes
- Treating this like a standard Lyft ride with no attention to accessibility or medical scheduling needs.
- Ignoring payment and insurance complexity, which is central to this use case.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you handle liability if a patient misses a ride due to a driver issue?
- How would you price this for clinics versus individual patients?
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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