Product design question

How would you design volunteering on Facebook Blue?

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What this question tests

Product design for community and social good: turning an offline behavior into an engaging, trustworthy in-app experience.

Clarify the user: people looking to volunteer versus organizations seeking volunteers, a two-sided design.
Identify the core need: discovering trustworthy, relevant volunteering opportunities nearby, and organizations finding reliable volunteers.
Propose a concrete flow, leveraging Facebook Groups and Events, showing volunteering opportunities from causes a user already follows.
Address trust, such as verification for organizations posting opportunities to prevent scams or misuse.
Define success as completed volunteer sign-ups and organization satisfaction with volunteer reliability.

Leverages existing Facebook infrastructure (Groups, Events, causes people follow) rather than building a standalone app.
Treats organization verification as necessary to prevent fraud or exploitation of goodwill.
Proposes a concrete feature, like surfacing volunteering opportunities from Pages a user already follows or has engaged with.
Uses an assumed metric, e.g. targeting 60 percent of sign-ups resulting in actual volunteer attendance.

Designing a standalone volunteering app with no tie to Facebook's existing social infrastructure.
Ignoring verification, risking scams or unreliable postings from unverified organizations.
Not addressing how to measure actual volunteer follow-through versus just sign-ups.

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