This approach has made my work much more relaxed and reduced stress a lot. The beauty of just first making it work somehow before going into design is that you

This approach has made my work much more relaxed and reduced stress a lot. The beauty of just first making it work somehow before going into design is that you can get rid of a good chunk of the unknown unknowns beforehand and you have a known working version you can always revert back to. It's less likely that you suddenly hit a brick wall when you think you are about to finish.