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> If you can't formulate actionable requirements, you're (...) not the domain expert

Yes, fine. So there is no (true Scotsman) domain expert. Grandparent's point is also just that actually building the application and seeing how users interact with it is a valid method of analysis either in a prototype phase or actual evolving production software.

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Is it valid tho? Deploying an app to get feedback is totally backwards. Make an interactive demo with no-code tools, record it and iterate on that based on stakeholder feedback.

You're paying your most expensive employees to build something twice, and initially in a lower-fidelity tool that won't quite mimic the functionality or the look the of the final product. So you end up with stakeholders that don't understand it's just an interactive demo, and start wondering why things don't quite work. That or they buy into the demo, you build the real solution and then they're questioning why it doesn't quite work the same, or looks different, because when does an interactive demo in a mockup tool every really get it 100% right?

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