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Product sensestandard
How would you improve Google Calendar?
How to approach it
Ask which users and which goal matter. Personal calendars and calendars of busy professionals are different problems.
How a strong answer opens
“Calendars mean different things to different people. I'd like to pick one segment, busy professionals, and one goal, giving them back time they lose to meetings.”
Outline of a strong answer
Try answering out loud for a few minutes before you open this.
- Clarify goal and platform
- Segment: busy professionals, families, students
- Pick busy professionals and name pain points: back-to-back meetings, no focus time, scheduling across time zones
- Ideas: protected focus blocks, meeting load warnings, smart scheduling links
- Prioritize by impact and fit with the product
- Measure focus hours kept and meetings rescheduled
Where this question usually goes wrong
Proposing small visual tweaks for everyone instead of choosing a user whose calendar causes real pain, like back-to-back meetings.
Learn the method
Clarify the prompt and set the goal in Module 1, Product sense and design.
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