Product design question

How would you design a product for disaster management? You can use all Google resources.

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What this question tests

Tests large-scale, mission-driven product design: sequencing a disaster response product using Google's actual assets and defining measurable impact.

Clarify the phase: disaster management spans prevention, real-time response, and recovery, and Google's tools serve each phase differently.
Identify users: affected residents needing real-time information, first responders needing coordination data, and government agencies needing situational awareness.
Leverage Google's assets: Maps and Search for crisis information (SOS Alerts), satellite and aerial imagery for damage assessment, and Google Cloud for data infrastructure supporting agencies.
Prioritize the highest-leverage phase: real-time response, since accurate, fast information (evacuation routes, shelter locations, hazard zones) directly saves lives.
Propose the solution: an enhanced crisis response layer in Search and Maps showing real-time hazard zones, shelters, and verified information, combined with an agency-facing dashboard using satellite imagery for damage assessment.
Define success: time to accurate information reaching affected users, and agency adoption of the damage-assessment tools for faster resource allocation.

Grounds the design in Google's actual existing crisis tools (SOS Alerts, satellite imagery, Maps) rather than proposing something unrelated to what Google already has.
Prioritizes the real-time response phase as highest leverage since it has the most direct life-safety impact, rather than spreading effort evenly across prevention, response, and recovery.
Serves both the public-facing side (residents needing information) and the agency-facing side (responders needing coordination data) as distinct but connected user needs.
Chooses time-to-accurate-information as a success metric, directly tied to the life-safety mission of the product.

Proposing a disaster product with no connection to Google's actual existing assets like Maps, Search, or satellite imagery.
Spreading focus evenly across all disaster phases instead of prioritizing the highest-impact real-time response phase.

How would you ensure information accuracy during a fast-moving crisis when misinformation spreads quickly?
How would you measure the product's actual impact on response time or lives affected?