The phrase "a design error" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a mistake or flaw in the design of a product, system, or plan.
Example: "The team discovered a design error that could potentially compromise the safety of the product."
Alternatives: "a design flaw" or "a design mistake".
The film director John Waters, who has four homes, said he has never made a design error, though his tastes are not for everyone.
The virus was detected in part because a design error led it to create many copies rather than a single copy on each machine it attacked.
Every reviewer who values his credibility feels obliged to maintain a certain clinical distance -- to identify a fault here, a compromise there, a design error that could have been corrected if only he or she had been consulted.
But a design error caused it instead to replicate madly out of control, ultimately jamming more than 6,000 computers nationwide in this country's most serious computer "virus" attack.
The defendant testified that he had written the program as an experiment and that a design error had caused it to copy itself far more rapidly than he had expected, halting thousands of computers as it spread.
But its public statements and recommendations to bridge owners since the collapse clearly indicate that its investigators believe the problem was a design error when the I-35W span was being planned in the 1960s, compounded by the extra weight of equipment placed on the bridge last year for construction work.
According to the Associated Press, he told reporters that the bridge "collapsed because so much money was spent on wasteful, unnecessary pork-barrel projects". The collapse, which killed 13, remains under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, but authorities suspect a "serious design error" as a factor.
To test whether the small gene size constitutes a fundamental design error for large mammalian muscle, we performed a comprehensive study using 22 dogs (8 normal and 14 dystrophic).
The A300 may have incorporated a huge design error, or the fin on this plane may have had an undetected flaw that made it weaker than expected.
The foreman believed the issue was caused by a product design error, so naturally, he wanted the engineering department to fix the problem.
This study presents a novel design error management strategy that focuses on team structures, interaction dynamics, and error diffusion.
