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How great ideas happen and how they get built | Ryan Singer (Basecamp, Shape Up, Felt Presence)

The Seed Stage - formerly "the June Podcast"

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The Importance of Prototyping

The number one thing, which I mentioned already that we see in the industry is Figma files getting thrown over to engineers. Once we realize that this doesn't work, what do we do instead? So this is this brings us right into prototyping. What does it look like to have a running piece of software where some essential flows are wired together, but they look terrible? The software equivalent of a house which is standing and the walls are there and there's some wiring sticking out of the walls, but there's no electric,. There's no drywall, there's no actual lamps or faucets plugged into the water pipes.

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