Product design question
How would you improve Facebook tagging?
- Meta
- Product design
- Easy
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What this question tests
Product sense for a well established social feature, finding a real remaining friction point.
How to approach it
- Pick a segment, for example users tagged in photos they did not approve versus users actively tagging friends.
- Identify a pain point: being tagged in an unflattering or unwanted photo without prior review causes real discomfort.
- Prioritize tag approval control over discovery features, since control over one's own image is the core trust issue here.
- Propose an opt in review step where tagged users approve appearing in a photo before it becomes visible to their network.
- Balance this against the tagger's experience, keeping the flow fast so approval does not discourage tagging altogether.
- Define success as reduction in tag removal requests and increase in tagger satisfaction with approval turnaround time.
What a strong answer includes
- Targets a specific, real known complaint, unwanted tagging, rather than a vague 'make tagging better' answer.
- Balances the tagged user's control against the tagger's experience, showing awareness of the two sided nature of the feature.
- Gives an illustrative number, e.g. assumes 15 percent of tags are currently removed after the fact, signaling unwanted tagging.
- Proposes a fast approval flow to avoid killing the spontaneity that makes tagging useful in the first place.
Common mistakes
- Proposing unrelated feature additions instead of addressing the known unwanted tagging friction.
- Only considering the tagged user's control and ignoring the tagger's experience entirely.
- No metric tied to whether the change actually reduced unwanted tagging complaints.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you keep this from discouraging tagging altogether?
- What would you do for group photos with many tagged people?
- How would you measure the impact on user trust?
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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