We use this technique all the time where I work for UX design. Often when stakeholders ask for things to be a certain way we try our best to do it the way that it was asked for before exploring other options.
Often we know it won't work because of intuition/experience but providing a best effort steelman option when presenting design options is very helpful in speeding through stakeholder reviews. Stakeholders will eat you alive in a review if you present a strawman of what they asked for.
Often we know it won't work because of intuition/experience but providing a best effort steelman option when presenting design options is very helpful in speeding through stakeholder reviews. Stakeholders will eat you alive in a review if you present a strawman of what they asked for.