Prioritizing Features in Discovery: How to Launch a Financial MVP on Time and on Budget

FinTech and business-consulting projects usually come with dozens of desired features: dynamic charts, custom reports, alerting systems, and automations. A smart project manager knows you can't build everything into the first version (MVP). My role as a senior product designer is to support the prioritization process through design tools. On the Beehive project, we translated the business requirements into a fast interactive prototype in Figma. Simulating the user experience at High-Fidelity allowed the project team to run early User Testing, understand which features were critical and which could be deferred, and in doing so save expensive months of development and hit the launch date precisely.