The phrase "a breakthrough design" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a design that represents a significant advancement or innovation in a particular field.
Example: "The new smartphone features a breakthrough design that sets it apart from all its competitors."
Alternatives: "an innovative design" or "a game-changing design".
But here is a chief difference between the Fords of '49 and '05: the older car was a breakthrough design; the new one is highly derivative.
A breakthrough design for Gehry, the concert hall also established the critical importance of contemporary architecture to the evolving identity of cities.
A BREAKTHROUGH design introduced 50 years ago in a last-ditch attempt to salvage a gasping automaker, the Studebaker Avanti has been called the car that never dies.
Mr. Evans claimed his system had a breakthrough design: a vent no larger than a pinhole that allowed hot vapor to escape without the loss of too much cooling fluid.
A 35-story office building, designed for a site on the outskirts of Barcelona, the tower is a breakthrough design, on account of its scale, its location in the capital city of the design universe and its crystallization of ideas Nouvel has been generating throughout his career.
At issue: Did General Motors steal a breakthrough design in automotive cooling technology for its Corvette from Jack Evans, an inventor from Sharon, and then attempt, as Mr. Evans claimed, to drive him out of business so he wouldn't have the will or the means to fight back?
Merck has received a "breakthrough" designation, designed to speed approval for using Keytruda with a PDL1 diagnostic made by Agilent – and Perlmutter says he does not think it could be revoked because of the Bristol results.
"Palm was ahead of its time in trying to build a phone software platform using Web technology, and we just weren't able to execute such an ambitious and breakthrough design," said Paul Mercer, former senior director of software at Palm, who oversaw the interface design of WebOS and recruited crucial members of the team.
International design competitions represent an excellent opportunity to pursue breakthrough design in a semi-commercial setting and we invited students to apply the state-of the-art Inspirational Design Brief approach on an open exploratory consumer product design competition.
Their breakthrough design – a motion-triggered inflatable helmet – shields a much greater portion of the head and neck, and provides a softer landing.
Just weeks before the trial was to start last spring, G.M.'s lawyers announced that the key piece of defense evidence, a memo sketch of the breakthrough design dated 1988, a year before Mr. Evans showed his system to G.M., had been faked by an engineer in the Corvette Group.
