Product design question

How would you design Google Maps for kids?

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What this question tests

Product sense balancing a child's simplified needs with parental oversight, specific to navigation and location.

Identify the core stakeholders, the child using the app and the parent needing visibility and control over the child's location and usage.
Identify the child's core need, simple, visual, age appropriate navigation help, for example walking to a friend's house or school with clear visual cues.
Identify the parent's core need, location sharing and safe zone alerts, notification when the child arrives at or leaves a defined safe zone.
Propose the product, a simplified map view with large icons, no ads or unrelated business listings, plus parent controlled safe zones and location sharing.
Define success metrics, parent reported trust or comfort level and successful safe zone alert accuracy.

Designs explicitly for both the child and the parent as distinct users with different needs, rather than a simplified version of the adult app alone.
Proposes a concrete safety mechanism, parent defined safe zones with entry and exit alerts, directly addressing the parent's core concern.
Chooses metrics tied to trust and safety rather than generic engagement, appropriate for a product where more usage is not necessarily the goal.

Treating this as just a visually simplified version of the regular app with no new safety features.
Ignoring the parent as a key stakeholder with their own distinct needs.
Optimizing for engagement metrics that do not fit a safety oriented product for children.

How would you handle privacy concerns around tracking a child's location?
How would this product change as the child gets older and needs more independence?