The design process
There are certain steps, methods and tools in the designing process that help us to organize our workflow. This is also called...
Design Thinking
Design thinking is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems and create innovative solutions to prototype and test.
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/design-thinking
As we've seen so many times here, there's no one certain way to do things - different organisations have developed their own methologies and defined their own design thinking processes. A few examples:
There is also another term we often stumble upon...
Design Sprints
A Design Sprint is a unique five day process for validating ideas and solving big challenges through prototyping and testing ideas with customers.
— Jake Knapp, author of "Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days"