Yes, it sounds like something a righteously angry significant other would say when you're trying to smooth things over. There's probably a nicer way to say this in the workplace that doesn't conjure up feelings of defensiveness and guilt...
I just wanted to document the merits of prototyping something as opposed to discussing at length what something might look or play like. Typically, designers like to postulate, theorize, discuss, argue, blah blah - we talk a LOT. Including my own desire to be always accurate, this can lead to some really long conversations about how to implement a particular system. Inevitably we end up talking so much that we could have developed the ideas on screen in the time we spend talking about how to develop our ideas.
Back when I was an aspiring graphic design student, I recall discussing next steps with my professor after a critique. I had a great idea on how to improve a particular composition and was describing how it related to my most recent work. About two sentences in, he said "It all sounds great - but I really can't judge until I see it. I need to see it." It was one of those mini-life lessons that 10 years later means even more to me when I think about it.
In the past few weeks I've been working in prototype pie in the sky anything goes land, and also in deadline driven get it done land. In both situations, I've noticed this tendency to debate being destructive to creative development. The only thing I've noticed that it improves is persuasive communication skills. In an effort to combat this tendency, many of us have committed to simply proving out our ideas in tandem; sometimes sacrificing our own biases to help someone else get their idea working. The end result has been absolutely amazing: discussions typically pockmarked with opposition and contradicting ideas give way to strong shared conclusions. Not only that, but the amount of trust and respect that is built between designers that originally had differing opinions only to reach a refined conclusion through this process is inspiring and powerful.
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