Product design question

how would you improve Facebook's safety check feature?

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What this question tests

Product improvement sense for a safety-critical, crisis-triggered feature.

Clarify pain points: delayed activation during a crisis, users unaware they should mark themselves safe, and geo-detection errors.
Propose faster, more precise crisis-area detection.
Propose proactive multi-channel notification, push plus SMS fallback, prompting users to mark safe.
Add a delegated mark-safe flow for someone checking on a family member.
Prioritize faster and more accurate triggering first, since delay during a real crisis is the most harmful failure mode.
Define success as time from event to majority of affected users marked safe.

Names the failure mode with the highest real-world stakes, delayed or inaccurate crisis detection, and prioritizes it.
Proposes a concrete reliability improvement, an SMS fallback, since push notifications can fail during outages.
Adds a delegated mark-safe flow, recognizing family members abroad also need reassurance quickly.
Picks time-to-majority-marked-safe as success metric, tied to the feature's actual life-safety purpose.

Focusing on cosmetic UI polish instead of the reliability and speed of crisis detection.
Ignoring that connectivity can be down during real crises, requiring fallback notification channels.

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