Product Improvement: Making It Easier to Share and Collect Photos in Google Photos

How would you make sharing photos and videos in Google Photos better? ```hint Find the sharing moment that breaks Think of a specific occasion when several people need the same set of photos, and walk through what each person has to do today before everyone has them. ``` ### Clarifying Questions - Is the goal more engagement from existing Google Photos users, or growth by bringing in people who receive shared photos but do not use the product? - Which sharing surfaces are in scope: shared albums, links sent to individuals, direct in-app sharing, or automatic sharing with a partner? - Must the improvement work for recipients on any phone or platform, including people without a Google account? - Can the design rely on face grouping, which is not available in every country, or should it work without it? ### What a Strong Answer Covers - A clear goal for the improvement and why it matters to Google Photos - A chosen user segment and sharing occasion, with the specific pain points in that journey - Several solution ideas, prioritized with explicit impact and effort reasoning - Success metrics with guardrails for privacy, unwanted sharing and notification fatigue - Risks such as over-sharing sensitive photos, and how the design prevents them ### Follow-up Questions - How would you stop your feature from sharing a photo its owner would not want shared? - If sharing activity rises but the number of new Google Photos users does not, is the feature a success? - How would you test the idea cheaply before building the full version?