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"Iterate"

"Iterate" means to improve something through repeated cycles of testing, feedback, and revision rather than getting it perfect in a single pass.

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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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