If your design is a screenshot on a timeline and not a URL I can open, I am not sure we have anything to talk about.
I do not mean that cruelly. I mean the proof has changed. For most of the history of this work, a mockup was real evidence. Making the picture was most of the labor. If you could render a convincing frame, you had demonstrated taste, effort, and intent, and the build was a formality someone else would handle later. The image stood in for the thing because producing the thing was expensive.
That gap closed. Quietly, and then all at once.
The mockup is no longer the hard part
The distance between imagining something and shipping it used to be measured in weeks and handoffs. It is now measured in an afternoon. When building the real thing costs about what drawing a picture of it used to cost, the picture stops being evidence of anything. It becomes the slower, weaker option. A still frame of an idea that could have been the idea.
So when I see a beautiful Figma board posted as a finished thought, the honest reaction is not "nice work." It is "why is it still a picture." Open the devtools. Let me see the logo in the top left of a real page. Let me see the thing breathe, resize, break, and get fixed. A mockup cannot break, which is exactly the problem. Nothing you cannot break has been tested against reality.
Build it, then talk
We live in the age of if you can dream it, build it, and most people are still narrating the dream. The dream is the cheap part now. Everyone has dreams. What is scarce is the willingness to put the real thing on a real domain where it can embarrass you.
This is not a knock on design. It is the opposite. Design got more powerful the moment it stopped having to stop at the picture. The best design thinking I see lately is happening in the build, in prod, in public, where the constraints are honest and the feedback is a person actually using it and not a heart on a post.
The receipt at the bottom
I would rather ship something half-finished and real than present something polished and imaginary. You can fix the real thing. You cannot fix a screenshot; you can only post another one.
So here is the standard I am holding myself to, out loud, so you can check it: everything I talk about should be openable. This site included. The flower stand is real. The florist behind the counter answers in real time. The logo in the corner is in the DOM, not in a frame.
If yours is still in Figma, that is fine. Finish it. Put it somewhere I can break it.
Otherwise, respectfully: ngmi.