Product design question

Improve Robinhood (trading platform).

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What this question tests

Product improvement for a consumer trading app, balancing engagement features against known criticism of encouraging risky behavior.

Identify the user: retail investors ranging from long-term holders to active traders, many drawn by Robinhood's simple, commission-free interface.
Name the pain point: users often lack context for making informed decisions, since the app has historically prioritized simplicity over education and risk context.
Propose an improvement: in-context education and risk indicators shown at the point of a trade, such as volatility history or a plain language summary of the position's risk.
Prioritize this over new trading features, since past criticism of gamified, low-friction trading has created real regulatory and reputational risk for the company.
Define success as reduction in impulsive trade reversals (buying and selling within minutes) and improved user reported confidence in trades, without significantly reducing platform usage.

Directly addresses Robinhood's known real world criticism around encouraging impulsive trading, rather than proposing purely growth-focused features.
Proposes a measurable proxy for impulsive behavior, rapid buy-sell reversals, instead of a vague 'improve education' statement.
Balances the fix against business impact, checking that added friction does not tank core engagement metrics.

Proposing only new trading features that increase activity without addressing known user harm concerns.
Ignoring the business tension between adding friction for user protection and maintaining trading volume.

How would you measure whether users found the new risk information actually helpful versus annoying?
How would you balance this against pressure to keep trading volume high?