I’m now starting my fourth or fifth version of one of our features via prototyping. The first versions were okay but didn’t hold up to our internal reviews either because it was going to “eff” our technical design or because it was to busy or confusing.
The nice part is that instead of burning a bunch of cycles in development, only to come to the same conclusion, we burned no dev time.
This latest version is good, but not great. However, it should get us through the MVP.