I do this with code, which is my main creative medium these days. First I solve the problem, without giving a damn about anything else. Then I gradually impro

I do this with code, which is my main creative medium these days. First I solve the problem, without giving a damn about anything else. Then I gradually improve my solution until I understand the problem well enough to drastically improve the architecture, at which point I either refactor or start over from scratch depending on which takes less effort.