Product design question
How would you redesign Facebook Pages?
- Meta
- Product design
- Medium
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What this question tests
Tests product redesign thinking: identifying why an existing feature underperforms for its core user, businesses, and proposing a targeted fix.
How to approach it
- Define the core user: small and medium business owners managing their brand presence and customer engagement through Pages.
- Identify the current gap: Pages often feel cluttered with organic reach declining, pushing businesses toward paid ads just to be seen.
- Propose a redesign focus: simplifying the posting and insights experience while giving small businesses clearer tools to reach existing followers.
- Address the reach concern directly, since businesses' biggest complaint is declining organic visibility, which a redesign alone cannot fully fix.
- Define success: business owner engagement with the Page management tools and follower interaction rate.
- Confirm with the interviewer whether the redesign is UI focused or should also address the underlying reach and algorithm concern.
What a strong answer includes
- Identifies the real underlying pain, declining organic reach frustrating business owners, and proposes redesigning insights to show clearer, actionable engagement data rather than vanity metrics.
- Simplifies the posting flow for small business owners who often manage Pages part time, reducing complexity that consumer style tools do not need.
- Proposes a direct messaging and customer service hub within Pages, since many small businesses use Pages primarily for customer inquiries.
- Sets a measurable goal, for example a stated increase in weekly active business page managers or response rate to customer messages.
Common mistakes
- Proposing only cosmetic UI changes without addressing the organic reach frustration that is the real source of business owner dissatisfaction.
- Designing for large enterprise brands instead of the small business owner who is the more common Pages user.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you address declining organic reach as part of this redesign?
- What would you prioritize differently for a large brand Page versus a small local business Page?
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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
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