Product Design Interview Questions

Patrick M. - "First thing I would like to consider is what is the potential opportunity to building an apps marketplace. Questions I would ask are: What’s the current user base of Microsoft Office Suite? What is that in revenue? Is it growing or declining? Where are users going to if they’re leaving? What are the most popular and least popular apps used in the Office suite? What are other apps that Microsoft Officer users use outside of the suite? Assuming that Microsoft Office has a massive us"See full answer

Abhinav C. - "Clarifying Questions Is it for a specific museum or any museum? To start with for a specific museum , we can expand to more museums Which region? Lets say a museum in UK, US or Europe any specific problem you want to solve? nothing specific What is the objective or goal of the app? You can choose Goal : To enhance the experience of visiting the museum and increase footfall in the long run through word of mouth / referrals Users : Museum Visitors Painpoints / Use Cases :- 1) For l"See full answer

Priyanka D. - "Spotify is a music application that allows users to listen to music, create their own playlists, share songs, recommend songs based on their listening patterns etc. Clarifying questions: Goal - Improve engagement and provide blind people with a platform to listen to music as they miss out on a lot of aspects of life. The main idea is to promote more inclusivity Same app or different - Same app Time or resource constraints: No Spotify has music creators and music listeners who are we"See full answer

Samarth S. - "Before we jump into discussion , few Qs which come to my mind in order to narrow the scope are: What kind of security system we are thinking . What do we want to achieve? Is there any biz goal in mind. What security related pain points are we trying to solve. What is the kind of hotel - is it a vacation rental , standalone hotel, highway motel, big chain resorts? What are the current systems being used. I think most of hotels have closed circuit cameras , fire alarms installed in"See full answer

Amin S. - "We can implement Mall psychology, use the monkey effect, FOMO, top-rated stuff from the same restaurants, bundle offers like couple or group offers, and prompt popups for free delivery if you complete X$ amount by adding X item. We can lure customers by giving free subscriptions to Spotify, Netflix, etc. by collaborating with these giants. This is a long-story-short overview of how we can increase the average basket size. Tracking telemetry and refining can make a difference obviously..."See full answer

Sanjanaa S. - "Clarification questions: 1) Is this a physical or digital product? 2) Are we enhancing an existing product or designing a brand new product? 3) Is this a product in the physical world or in the Metaverse? (I know Meta has recently expanded in virtual fashion space with partnerships with designer brands) 4) Competition with other fashion products [Depop, Nuuly, Rent the Runway, Pickle, Poshmark, Instagram Shopping) 5) Are there any time constraints on when MVP should be launched? 6) What market"See full answer

Anusree N. - "Design a product for cyclists. Clarifying Cyclist as in? People who cycle right? Who are we? Startup Are we designing a MVP/Standalone application or integrating the solution with an already existing one? Goal? Seems like acquisition, anything else or any broader goal that might be in your mind? Customer segments? You define. Is it a hardware or a software product? Geography? India Customer segment Regular cyclist: Who uses cycle for their daily commute. (As acquisition is our main g"See full answer

Shiva S. - "Car sharing app, like an airbnb but for cars. Assuming for the US market. Goal: Awareness , Acquisition, Engagement, Retention Getting new users to take more rides User Segments: Owners Have a spare car not being used Don't have to purchase the car Own unused premium cars Looking at Turo as an investment option when making a car purchase decision Renters Rent for work trips Rent for vacations Rent during a short stay in town _Family and Indivi"See full answer

Varun J. - "Assumptions: In-app feature Focused only on Facebook app and not messenger, WhatsApp, or Instagram Focused on community building and groups, not marketplace Facebook's mission is to bring people closer together and give people the power to build communities. Fans of Olympic games straddle across regions and across demographics such as age and gender. I'd assume the product for Olympics should be targeted to all demographics. However, given not everyone follows, or is interested in build"See full answer

Y C. - "Clarifying questions Financial savviness is it related means Digital wallet Prudent Spending habits Intuitive savings Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful Geographical or any other constraint Product goal - This is in total alignment with Google's mission as it is trying to provide the consumers their financial information and making it useful. Engagement User personas Students Millennials Professionals -"See full answer

Krishna K. - "Improve what aspect of Google Translate ? What is the current state of that aspect ?"See full answer

Shahnawaz K. - "I am going to assume, the person is 50 years old and uses a basic feature phone. Here is how it goes Local Context: When you come back from morning walk, you are your friends stop at a chai point to rest and have tea, what do you talk about ? (Assume he says everything and anything). Imagine there are no friends but you still want to talk and you want your friends and everyone to listen to your thoughts / rant. Imagine you don’t want to talk but you want only listen to what your frien"See full answer

Anonymous Moose - "Clarifying Questions: Why does Meta want to build this product ? {Aligns with Meta's mission of connecting people} What's the goal ? Does Meta want to monetise this initiative in any way? {It wants to increase the total number of users using this platform and then in the mid-term increase engagement} User Groups: Young (20-40), tech-savvy working professional; seeking doctor consultation for self, friends and family members (First) Older mass (50+), seeking frequent and accessible doct"See full answer

Shashi R. - "Clarification — Need to design an MVP for Booking’s homepage to improve CLV — Objective is to test out things to get more CLV out of our existing or new customers right? yes — apart from this objective, is there anything that I have to keep in mind? nope — is there any preference in user groups or geography or platform? mobile, open to all Cool, I get the gist of it. Improving or increasing CLV is a function of retention & cross-sell. — retention what all things we can build for reten"See full answer

Stephen C. - "We've identified the problem as a Design a Product question. Use the following framework for tackling these types of questions: Ask Clarifying Questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Identify current solutions Brainstorm new solutions Evaluate solutions Measure success Summarize We'll go through each of these step by step. Ask Clarifying Questions The PM interview isn't about your ability to come up w"See full answer