Product design question

How can you improve Facebook Stories?

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What this question tests

Tests product sense on a mature, high-usage feature where obvious ideas are already shipped, so you must find a real, underserved gap.

Segment Stories users: casual posters sharing daily moments, creators/businesses using it for reach, and viewers who mostly consume without posting.
Identify a pain point for viewers, discovery is passive and Stories disappear in 24 hours with no easy way to revisit relevant ones.
Identify a pain point for creators, limited analytics on what part of a multi-slide Story loses viewers.
Propose one improvement per segment but recommend prioritizing creator retention analytics, since it protects the supply side that viewers depend on.
Define success: increase in Stories completion rate (viewers finishing all slides) and creator posting frequency week over week.

Picks a specific, addressable pain point (drop-off analytics for creators) instead of a generic 'add more stickers' idea.
Ties the improvement to a two-sided marketplace logic: better creator tools protect the content supply that keeps viewers coming back.
Gives an illustrative number, e.g. assume 40% of viewers drop off by slide 3, to motivate a completion-focused fix like auto-trimming dead slides.
States a clear success metric (completion rate, posting frequency) instead of leaving impact vague.

Suggesting surface-level features (more filters, more stickers) without identifying a real user pain point.
Not distinguishing between viewer-side and creator-side improvements, which have very different success metrics.

How would you validate that drop-off is really the biggest problem before building analytics?
How would this tradeoff against Reels, which competes for the same screen time?