Product Design Interview Questions

Mayank S. - "[2:53 pm, 02/12/2021] Mayank: Before we deep dive into brainstorming the solution I go ahead and make few assumptions for clarifying questions: Step-1- Framing a problem 🎯Why users go to gym? To relieve stress by doing exercise To maintain their body To reduce their weight To remain active To make good physique 🎯Who goes to gym? Couples Group of friends Individuals Here we are trying to design high tech gym so it means we are looking to create good experience-and"See full answer

Sunflower - "Can you clarify how we define cyberbullying? To me, it means negative or abusive content targeted towards an individual or a group. This can be in the form or text or media. Lets talk about Reddit as a product: To enable positive discussions on diverse topics. Did I miss anything here? Lets talk about users here: We have: Teenagers: 13 - 19 years old Millennials: 20 - 39 years old Gen X and Baby Boomers: 40+ I think teenagers are the most vulnerable and the highest priority group for this use"See full answer

Adarsh S. - "Hey, Thanks for the question - it’s a fantastic challenge with real-world impact. Cool so this is the rough backbone structure that we can follow and ofcourse we can add meat later on to it and pivot if required. So here it goes: First would like to lay out the broader mission as to why we are doing this and then some clarification questions and then probably try to segment users via single or different approaches, then will pick which permutation makes sense as the target segment, then ge"See full answer

Unicorn 2. - "I would ask what are the currently supported modes of transport. Assuming cars, luxury cars, transit. Bike and scooter is off limits. Also assuming Lyft is available only in the US currently. Then I would start off with the Goal. Why does Lyft want to launch a new mode of transport. Assuming possible reasons in order of priority: 1) To gain market share 2) To gain new users (riders/drivers) 3) Improve experience of users (riders/drivers) Do we have restrictions on country that we can l"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "This is a product design question in which we have explored both hardware and software solution I think in this age of advance technology, blind people deserve much more. There are so many beautiful landscapes and sceneries in the world which are totally inaccessible to the blind people. It would be great if we would be able to provide that kind of experience to them. Clarification questions : Shailesh : When we are building camera, so are we thinking of any digital app or the physical"See full answer

Anonymous Hummingbird - "Clarifying questions: Q: So FB locals is a standalone app that has reviews of local businesses? What is the current state of the product? A: Yes. It recently relaunched and branded. Facebooks mission is to connect people and help them build community, FB local fits into this by using the power of the large social network to surface businesses and events and uses signals such as reviews to build trust and provide value. So its of the utmost importance that the reviews are authentic. Goal: I"See full answer

Ajinkya P. - " I would ask some clarifying questions to refine my objective and know about our users? What do you mean by experience? Travel, food, short stay, long stay, dating, event, work, airport, registration? - Improve Food, Travel, Event experience, which can be a short or long stay. What do you mean by the movement to a new city? International travel/ within a specific country (designing solution for any country?) or any geography? - within a country suppose India What is our business objecti"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "User Persona Individual heavy Users Casual users Enterprise Users Occasional Users I would like to think more about the Enterprise users, because they are the power users and the maximum revenue of the Google may come up with the enterprise solutions. It is my hypothesis that despite of improvement of the Google drive, common individual users are highly unlikely to use the premium version of the G Suite User Journey of the person using Google Drive Want to work on the new document"See full answer

SweetTaco - "Understand Wikipedia Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that gives everyone access to unbiased and accurate knowledge and information. Current products: Website - people use Wikipedia to search and pull up articles written around a specific topic Integration with other products such as browsers and kindles - people highlight a word/subject and they can pull up the relevant wikipedia if it's available. Business model: It's a non-profit organization t"See full answer

Esha - "Clarifying Questions What do we mean by ‘improve’? Is there a certain goal that we are trying to attain? Is there a target user that we are going for? Any constraints or things to keep in mind when building this? Assumptions Only focused on google docs and not collaboration on other G-suite products such as PPT or sheets What is Google Docs? Web-based productivity tool that allows you to access your files from any computer through your gmail account. You can also share and"See full answer

Aruna D. - "Assumption #1: the deal is signed and the customer now will being the process of moving to GCP Assumption #2 : the deal includes Iaas as well as Paas (App Engine) - moving apps from on prem to cloud Objective : Design a product that will help the customer onboard and successfully plan the move to GCP. Customer is using on premise and is new to cloud. Lets assume the tool should include the roadmap planning too ie decisions such as moving all vs some applications etc . As in any onboarding to"See full answer

Anonymous Flamingo - "Handling projects out of my expertise: When faced with a project that falls outside of my expertise, I take the following steps: Identify my skills and knowledge gaps: I assess my own strengths and limitations, and determine which areas of the project may be outside of my comfort zone or expertise. Seek guidance and mentorship: I reach out to colleagues or subject matter experts who have relevant knowledge or experience, and ask for their advice and guidance on the project. Learn and adapt"See full answer

Pranav M. - "Statement: Improve the music experience at youtube Is the goal to improve the experience for any particular kind of user/music genre? Ans: No, nothing in particular Goal: I’m going to assume the goal is to improve the experience of listening to music generally Google’s mission is to organise the world’s information. Youtube is a platform that lets people discover videos, interesting content as tailored to their interests, thus serving Google’s mission Music on Youtube also contributes to"See full answer

Talles S. - "Me: First, let's design our product and then we will calculate the estimated amount of units sold. Before we begin, is there anything specific about this refrigerator, is this a 'smart refrigerator'? Interviewer: Yes, you can consider this is a smart refrigerator but the overall design is up to you. Me: Thank you, one more question, do we have a specific user in mind? Younger people? Retirees? Interviewer: No, you can select the user base based on your prioritization, but theoretically it cou"See full answer

Dan D. - "It would be nice if the final Google Docs link can be shared somewhere, so we can access it for reference with ease."See full answer

Anonymous Minnow - "Goals (Prod & Safeway) User Groups: Shoppers: College Students Professionals Families Elderly New customers (not already in the store) I selected elderly due to trends on the aging population being a significant population in the next decade and it being a group we have the most opportunity as Safeway to support. Pain Points **Most likely these customers are buying things in person or someone is purchasing items for them and gettin"See full answer