Product design question

How would you go about designing a new location sharing app for Google?

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What this question tests

Tests product design from a blank slate: finding a real gap beyond Google Maps' existing location sharing, and designing around the privacy tension.

Note Google already has Location Sharing in Maps, so ask what's genuinely new; assume a proactive, context-aware angle.
Identify users: friends and family coordinating meetups, or checking on a teen's commute or an elderly parent.
Name the core tension: usefulness needs real-time visibility, but users are wary of being tracked continuously.
Design around it: purpose-scoped, time-boxed sharing ('share until I arrive') instead of always-on, with a persistent visibility indicator.
Add a safety variant: a 'walk me home' mode sharing live ETA with a trusted contact, alerting if the person doesn't arrive.
Define success as weekly use of time-boxed sessions, with opt-out rate as the key guardrail.

Names the central design tension (usefulness vs privacy anxiety) and builds the whole product around resolving it.
Proposes purpose-scoped, time-boxed sharing as the real differentiator from always-on tracking, addressing the real adoption barrier.
Adds a distinct safety use case (walk-me-home), showing a broader view of user needs than simple meetups.
Uses opt-out/distrust rate as an explicit guardrail, fitting for a feature this privacy-sensitive.

Rebuilding Google Maps' existing feature without explaining the differentiation.
Ignoring privacy concerns, the biggest real adoption barrier for location sharing.
No guardrail metric around trust, just engagement numbers.

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