The phrase "a design failure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a design does not meet its intended purpose or expectations.
Example: "The product was pulled from the market due to a significant design failure that compromised user safety."
Alternatives: "a design flaw" or "a design shortcoming".
Mr. Foye called this a "design failure".
Many found it hard to control, and it is widely considered a design failure.
It was a manufacturing issue, as it turned out, not a design failure, but it set back the project several months.
After the hearing, according to The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, General Strock told reporters that the incident "could be called a design failure" — a conclusion that corps officials had been reluctant to take in the past.
The mapping of failure region from the nondimensional analysis is instructive as a design failure map for predicting the fracture behavior of asymmetrical single lap joints.
This is a design failure and absolutely unacceptable.
To that, Mr. Morey added, "The problem with this ride was not a massive design failure, but a single incident that happened after 40,000 riders had safely used the ride.
The riveting flaws in the roof of the Southwest Airlines jet that recently tore open in flight appear to be poor manufacturing work on that one plane rather than a broader design failure, Boeing's chief executive said Wednesday.
A major reason for this fact is that more and more is being layered on top of a healthcare design failure.
This report said that the lack of backup power sources was a major design failure, which contributed to the loss: Ark Royal depended on electricity for much of her operation, and once the boilers and steam dynamos were knocked out, the loss of power made damage control difficult.
None of the genes tested were able to generate meaningful Ct values, suggesting that genes that were not detected by our designed primers are either in extremely low abundance under the conditions tested or poor candidates for RT-PCR analysis rather than being an inherent program primer design failure.
