Product design question

Design a Facebook tool for the Olympics.

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What this question tests

Product design for a time-bound, high-engagement event, balancing social features with real-time relevance.

Define the user: fans following specific athletes, countries, or sports during a short, high-intensity global event.
Identify the core need: real-time updates, community discussion, and a way to follow niche or under-covered sports easily.
Prioritize a live hub feature over a broad new app, since it fits existing Facebook usage patterns and event urgency.
Design the core experience: personalized event feed by followed athletes/countries, live group chats per event, and official highlight clips.
Define success metrics: daily active users during the Games window and time spent in the Olympics hub.
Plan for the time-bound nature: how the feature sunsets or repeats for the next Games without becoming dead weight.

Anchors the design in the event's short, intense window, unlike an evergreen product design.
Proposes personalization by followed country or athlete, addressing the long tail of sports beyond marquee events.
Gives an illustrative metric, e.g. hub DAU reaching 5% of Facebook's user base during the Games, marked as an assumption.
Addresses reusability, proposing the hub template gets reactivated for future major sporting events.

Designing a permanent product without addressing what happens after the two-week event ends.
Ignoring niche sports fans and only covering marquee events like the 100m final.

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