Product design question
You are the product manager for the Apple iOS. How would you improve the product?
- Adobe
- Product design
- Easy
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What this question tests
Ability to pick one specific improvement to a mature OS rather than a scattershot wishlist.
How to approach it
- Pick a specific, real user segment and pain point rather than 'improve iOS' broadly, for example notification overload.
- Identify the problem: too many apps compete for attention via badges and banners, and current grouping is limited.
- Prioritize this because notification fatigue is a widely reported, frequent daily pain point affecting nearly all users.
- Propose smarter, on-device notification prioritization that learns which app notifications a user actually acts on versus dismisses.
- Preserve user trust: keep it fully on-device, matching the platform's known privacy stance, and easily overridable.
- Define success as fewer notifications dismissed without opening and higher user-reported satisfaction with relevance.
What a strong answer includes
- Picks one concrete, universally relatable pain point, notification overload, rather than a vague wishlist of features.
- Ties the proposed solution to the platform's actual stated values, on-device privacy-preserving processing, showing platform awareness.
- Gives a measurable proxy for improvement, dismissed-without-opening rate, rather than vague satisfaction claims.
Common mistakes
- Listing many small feature requests with no single clear priority.
- Proposing a cloud-based solution that conflicts with the platform's well-known on-device privacy positioning.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you avoid the system hiding a notification the user actually needed?
- How would you test this before a full OS rollout?
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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