Your teams design procedures

[Andy L]

Our team this year had a horrible process of designing parts.
it was a think of it build it and put it on type thing and we were never organized.

so next year I will most likely be a team leader and I was wondering how most teams go through designing parts.

right now we thought of something like this:
-Rough Design
-Discuss with others
-CAD Design
-Prototype in VEX
-Discuss with others
-Make changes to proto/CAD
-Create

we also had our whole team swarming over our 'bot all season and could barely get in to program or check if somethings would fit. my idea for a fix of that was take a piece of ply wood, lay it over the robot and cut out holes where ever there was a place that had nothing in it. so we could just cut more of these then give them to people who wanted to design a part.

any suggestions to my ideas?
and what does your team do?