Product design question
How would you design a product or feature in Adobe that helps non-designers create high-quality visual content?
- Adobe
- Product design
- Medium
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What this question tests
Product design for democratizing a skill intensive tool, balancing simplicity for beginners against Adobe's existing pro tool complexity.
How to approach it
- Define the user: small business owners, marketers, or hobbyists who need decent visuals but lack design training.
- Identify the barrier: professional tools expose too many options that overwhelm a non designer trying to make a simple flyer or social post.
- Propose a guided, template based creation flow enhanced with AI driven layout and color suggestions based on the user's content and intent.
- Design for progressive disclosure: start with a constrained, guided flow, revealing advanced controls only if the user seeks them out.
- Define success: completion rate of a design task among self identified non designer users, and satisfaction with output quality.
What a strong answer includes
- Correctly diagnoses tool complexity, not lack of inspiration, as the real barrier for non designers.
- Proposes progressive disclosure, a concrete UX pattern keeping the tool simple by default without removing power user capability.
- Uses task completion rate as the metric, since the real goal is getting non designers to finish and use their output.
Common mistakes
- Proposing a feature that duplicates Canva's exact playbook with no Adobe specific reasoning.
- No plan for progressive disclosure, risking the same overwhelming complexity that already turns non designers away.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would this differ from what Adobe Express already offers?
- How would you get power users to not feel the product was dumbed down?
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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