What is Methodology?
According to the dictionary, a “methodology” is
“a series of methods, guidelines, and beliefs utilized in a field or discipline: a specific procedure, protocol or set of procedures and protocols.”
In other words, it’s an often simplified, tried out way to conduct actions within a system that are relevant to the proper functioning of whatever it is you are doing. A set of approaches, discovered either by design, experimentation, trial and error, experience and theories tested in practice.
People are constantly trying to figure out how to create methodical approaches to various aspects of life and reality and the universe, so methodology design would in essence be the design of design itself.