Most prototypes end up in a drawer. They answer a question, and then the team rebuilds everything from scratch.
Build with the real parts
When I can, I prototype inside the product’s own codebase, using its components and tokens. The prototype is rough in places, but the parts that work are already production code.
Write down the behaviour
Next to the code I keep short notes on timing, edge cases and what happens when things fail. Developers read those more than any design file.
The handover becomes a pull request and a short call, and nothing gets lost in translation.
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