How Do You Iterate on These Things?

It's very easy to be busy, but that doesn't mean that you're productive, right? I think whenever i'm playing one of the games that i'm working on, i write down little notes to myself like, oh, when you are walking through the sdoor, you should also be able to o wobble left and right. The game wouldn't need that, but it will feel slightly nicer if i do that. So i've this huge dist of stuff. But then ever, when you do real play, i sing,. When you get another player in front of your game and you start to see the thing like, Oh, the player doesn't even realize they need to