Product design question
Design a product to make using Apple devices safer for its users.
- Meta
- Product design
- Hard
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What this question tests
Cross company product design requiring a clear scope decision and understanding of a real, known threat model.
How to approach it
- Clarify the ambiguity: this is likely misattributed, but interpret it as designing a Meta product to help make using Apple devices safer, for example a security focused feature for Meta apps running on iOS.
- Identify the real threat model: phishing links, account takeover attempts, and scam messages are the dominant safety risks for users on any device, including Apple's.
- Segment users: less tech savvy users most vulnerable to phishing and scams versus power users who mainly want privacy controls.
- Prioritize phishing and scam protection, since it's the highest frequency, highest harm risk across device types.
- Propose in app link scanning before opening external links from messages, plus a simplified security checkup prompting weak passwords or unrecognized login alerts.
- Define success as reduction in reported account takeovers and phishing related support tickets among affected users.
What a strong answer includes
- Resolves the prompt's likely mismatched company attribution by stating the interpretation clearly rather than guessing silently.
- Focuses on the actual dominant threat, phishing and account takeover, rather than vague general safety.
- Gives an illustrative number, for example assuming a 20 percent reduction in phishing related support tickets after in app link scanning launches.
- Proposes a concrete, checkable feature, a simplified security checkup, rather than generic more safety messaging.
Common mistakes
- Not addressing the odd company or product attribution at all, leaving the answer's scope unclear.
- Proposing generic safety advice, like use strong passwords, without a concrete product feature.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you balance security friction against user convenience in the login flow?
- How would you measure whether users actually understood and acted on security warnings?
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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