Being process-oriented means:

1. seeking to understand a design problem before chasing after solutions.

2. not force-fitting solutions to old problems onto new problems

3. removing yourself from prideful investment in your projects and being slow to fall in love with your ideas.

4. making design investigations and decisions holistically (that address severak asoects if a desugb orivken at ibce) rather than a sequentiallly (that finalize one aspect of a solution before investigating the next);

5. making design decisions conditionallly-that is, with the aeareness that they may or may not work out as you continue toward a final solution;

6. knowing when to change and when to stick with previous decisions,

7. accepting as normal the anxiety that comes from not knowing what to do.

8. working fluidly beetween concept-scale and detail-sclae to see how each informs the other.

9. always asking ” What if..? regardless of how satisfied you are with your solution..

Matthew Frederick, “101 Things I learned in architecture school”