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Prototypes in two hours, not two weeks
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A high-fidelity prototype used to take our team about two weeks. Now it takes about two hours, in working React, on our own design tokens. [CONFIRM wording] This is how, and what it changed.
Why two weeks was too slow
[NEED: who built prototypes before, with what, and why it took two weeks.] [CONFIRM: decisions waited on prototypes, and by the time one was ready the question had moved on.]
How it works now
1. Tokens come from Figma through MCP, so the prototype uses the same values as production.
2. [CONFIRM: AI writes the React; I decide the flow, the states and what to cut.]
3. [NEED: the review step — who sees it, and how]
[NEED: visual — Figma → tokens → code. The prototype reads the same tokens production does.]
What stays human
[NEED: what the AI does not decide in your workflow]
What it changed
Two weeks became two hours. [NEED: what was measured, how many prototypes since, who else uses it] The unified admin prototype was built this way.
Thanks to [NEED: names] for reading drafts.
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