The phrase "a certain amount of design" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the quantity or extent of design involved in a project or concept.
Example: "The new product requires a certain amount of design to ensure it meets user needs and aesthetic standards."
Alternatives: "a degree of design" or "some level of design".
The lack of clearly specified guidelines for the selection of a proper treatment approach contributes to a certain amount of randomness in designing the experiments, which often result in failure.
Over the past several months, there has been a certain amount of criticism over the design of some F1 circuits, both in regards to older tracks that might benefit from an upgrade and those that have been built very recently.
A certain amount of deformation should be designed to guarantee the normal sectional area of the retained entryway.
A: Air-conditioning evaporator coils and furnace heat exchangers need a certain amount of air flow for maximum design efficiency.
To develop a nuclear weapon Iran needs a warhead design, a certain amount of fissile material, and a delivery vehicle such as a missile.
The results of load displacement analysis show that the connections can sustain a certain amount of moment, though there is no specific design procedure in current codes.
Both these failure modes have received a certain amount of interest by the research community, and design rules and proposals against both these failure modes exist.
Designs are always changing in response to feedback (you can check out our many prototypes at our webpage), and while this is good for technical improvement, the efficient production of solar collectors requires a certain amount of "lock-in" or commitment to a design that can be reliably and affordably duplicated.
Although they require less time and cost, a certain amount of manpower and money are also necessary to design and manufacture these complex structures.
This could possibly be compensated by using a rotating tibial platform or a prosthesis with a fixed bearing design, which allows a certain amount of rotational freedom between the femoral and the tibial component.
Because the Precisionists used these motifs primarily to create formal designs, there is a certain amount of abstraction in their works.
