Not sure this should necessarily be held up as a good thing. Different designers work differently, because they perceive things differently, think about things differently, and solve things differently. Assuming the designers are good designers, I find greater value in not only allowing, but encouraging differences in order to achieve a better chance at real and valuable innovation.

I’m not baiting you. I get your point from a practical perspective. However, even in that sense I have rarely found myself following the same exact process I employed in the past. All things change — products, problem, people, resources, data, priorities, constraints — and each day we learn more and are capable of better design than the day before. So my “process” also changes, constantly, in response to and in anticipation of these other changes.