"Iterate"
"Iterate" means to improve something through repeated cycles of testing, feedback, and revision rather than getting it perfect in a single pass.
Say this instead: improve in rounds
How "Iterate" shows up at work
A startup staple that replaced "revise" and "improve" sometime around 2010 and never left. Healthy as a practice, but often used as a reason to ship something that is not quite ready yet.
Buzzword
Let's Iterate on the prototype based on what we heard in user testing.
Plain English
Let's improve in rounds based on what we heard in user testing.
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