Strategy question

How would you design an online map that would help navigation inside a building?

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What this question tests

Whether you can design a navigation product against a genuinely different technical constraint, no GPS indoors.

Clarify scope: navigating inside a large building like an airport, mall, or hospital where GPS signal is unreliable.
Identify the target user: someone unfamiliar with the building trying to find a specific room, gate, or store quickly.
Address the core technical constraint upfront: positioning must rely on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth beacons, or building-provided floor plans instead of GPS.
Prioritize a simple turn-by-turn flow using existing infrastructure, like Bluetooth beacons already installed for retail, before proposing new hardware.
Propose a concrete MVP: partner with a handful of high-traffic venues to map floor plans and place beacons, starting with airports for a captive, motivated user base.
Define success metrics: successful navigation completion rate and time to destination, with a guardrail on positioning accuracy indoors.

Addresses the actual technical constraint, no reliable GPS indoors, as the first design decision rather than an afterthought.
Prioritizes airports as a starting venue, since travelers are highly motivated and airports already have infrastructure investment.
Proposes reusing existing Bluetooth beacon infrastructure instead of assuming all-new hardware is needed everywhere.
Gives a guardrail metric, positioning accuracy, since a wrong turn indoors is disorienting in a way outdoor GPS error rarely is.

Designing the feature like outdoor Maps navigation without addressing how positioning actually works indoors.
Trying to launch across all building types at once instead of starting with one high-value, well-instrumented venue type.

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