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Overview
Summary
The Hypothesis: Relevance Over Chronology
Content-First, Feed-Second
Masonry Grid & Media-First Engagement
Stories Integration
Reflection
Meta

Unifying public presence and Page management.

Merging Page and Profile models to prioritize content relevance over chronological feeds.

Facebook App Profile Unification

Facebook Pages was built for business dialogue, but creators and public figures needed high-volume content dissemination. Collaborated across teams to explore whether unifying non-business use cases into a single profile architecture could unlock scalable growth.

The Hypothesis: Relevance Over Chronology

Core Exploration: Prioritizing content by relevance, hashtags, engagement signals, and personal affinity (mutual groups, shared interests, connections), while keeping traditional timeline tabs accessible for high-intent visitors.

Relevance-based content exploration
Content grid with contextual signals

Content-First, Feed-Second

Bypassed traditional post feeds to prioritize fast content discovery via vertical scrolling and pivot navigation. Replaced cluttered controls with a pull-down header drawer, surfacing one primary action upfront to reduce decision friction.

Swipe-to-navigate content model
Streamlined content consumption
Pull-down header drawer interaction

Masonry Grid & Media-First Engagement

A fluid masonry grid embedded native Page elements (like reviews) directly into the feed, eliminating tab siloing. Shifted to a media-first model where text expands on interaction, mirroring high-engagement creator behaviors.

Masonry grid with embedded reviews
Media-first content model with trending logic

Stories Integration

In 2018, Instagram's Story format was taking off, and there was a push to integrate it more broadly across Facebook's ecosystem. I explored how Stories could live natively within this new Pages concept, applied to a public figure profile.

Stories integrated into public figure profile
Story consumption within the profile experience
Story navigation and transitions
Full story experience with profile context
Stories and content grid coexisting

Reflection

Though kept as a strategic exploration, this project established the foundational architecture for cross-org profile unification and shared platform design vision across Meta.