AI for Product Manager | Concepts You Need to Know

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Imagine you are a Product Manager at Adobe.

You are building a Platform for Designers where they can upload their creations, find inspiration, and discover resources.

You have talked to several designers, and one feature that kept coming up in user feedback was the ability to find visually similar images.

So you think about it and come up with a feature: A designer uploads a mood board image and wants to find other assets in our library with a similar aesthetic — the same colour palettes, textures, or overall style.

2 ways of solving this Problem

Approach 1 — Keyword Tagging-Based Search

Imagine users tag their uploaded images with keywords like “blue,” “sky,” or “landscape.” When someone searches for “blue sky,” the system only shows images explicitly tagged with those words.

This keyword-based approach is simple to implement initially.

However, it’s limiting because users might use different words for the same visual concept, and tags often miss nuanced similarities like gradients that can’t be described with…