Demoing Work-in-Progress Effectively — Roadmap Step & Resources
Showing unfinished work in a way that builds confidence instead of undermining it
- Level: intermediate
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Before this step
Interview questions
- How do you demo something that's only 60% finished without losing the client's confidence?
Study resources
- How to Present Design Work to Stakeholders (Article) — Nielsen Norman Group's guide to presenting unfinished or in-progress work confidently.
- How to Demo Work in Progress Explained (Video) — Covers framing partial progress in a way that builds rather than undermines confidence.
- Design Critiques (Article) — Nielsen Norman Group's guide to presenting and discussing unfinished work productively.
Part of
- Rapid Prototyping and Delivery — section
- Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) roadmap — the full learning path