Product design question

Design a kid-friendly Swiggy experience for 10-16 year olds.

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What this question tests

Product design for a sensitive user segment: balancing appeal to minors with safety, parental control, and trust considerations.

Clarify the user: kids aged 10 to 16 ordering food, likely with parental oversight required for payment.
Identify core needs: a simple, fun ordering experience alongside strict safety and spending controls for parents.
Design the core flow: a linked parent account sets a spending limit and approved restaurant list, then the child orders within those bounds.
Address safety explicitly: no direct messaging with delivery partners, and age-appropriate content and restaurant options.
Define success as adoption by parent accounts and completed orders within set limits with zero safety incidents.

Treats parental control as core to the design, not optional, given the sensitivity of a minors-facing product.
Proposes a concrete safety feature, like disabling direct chat between the child and the delivery partner.
Addresses monetization carefully, since ads or upsells targeting children raise ethical and regulatory concerns.
Uses an assumed metric, e.g. requiring zero safety incidents as a hard gate before any feature expansion.

Designing a fun experience while ignoring safety and parental control requirements.
Ignoring regulatory considerations around marketing to children.
Not addressing how spending limits or approvals are enforced.

How would you handle regulatory requirements around children's data privacy?
How would you prevent the delivery partner from having direct contact with the child?
How would parents set and adjust spending limits?