Product design question

You are the product manager for Google Photos. How would you improve the recap (year-in-review) feature?

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What this question tests

Product design for an existing, well loved feature, requiring a specific enhancement grounded in what already works and what is missing.

Identify the current recap's strength: automatically surfacing highlight photos from the year with light editing like music and transitions.
Identify the gap: recaps are often generic, missing personal narrative context and sometimes surfacing low quality or duplicate shots.
Propose improving curation quality using better duplicate and blur detection, weighting toward photos with people or manual favoriting as quality signals.
Propose adding light narrative structure: grouping by detected life events with simple auto generated captions instead of one undifferentiated reel.
Define success: completion rate of viewing the recap, and share rate, since a resonant recap is one people actually send to others.

Identifies curation quality as a concrete, fixable gap rather than a vague make it better answer.
Proposes event based grouping with simple captions, adding meaningful structure beyond one undifferentiated reel.
Uses share rate as a strong quality proxy, since users only share recaps that genuinely resonate.

Proposing generic aesthetic changes without addressing curation quality, the actual driver of a good recap.
No metric tied to whether the recap resonated, only whether it was generated.

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