The phrase "a design weakness" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing flaws or vulnerabilities in a design, whether in engineering, software, or other fields.
Example: "The recent audit revealed a design weakness in the software that could lead to security breaches."
Alternatives: "a design flaw" or "a design shortcoming".
Given the growing links between online services, users' devices, and the systems of communications and critical infrastructure providers, a designed weakness in one part of the ecosystem -- say online communications or smartphones -- would only serve as a pathway for hackers, identity thieves, or terrorists to attack one of the other fundamental systems.
The rubber space stations never flew, in part because of an obvious design weakness — they could pop if hit by meteoroids.
The investigators appropriately recognize that matching of chronic disease states would enhance the study [ 1], but this omission might be of more significance than a simple study design weakness.
Unfortunately, because of a fundamental CIF design weakness (the same character ';' is used for both the beginning and end of a text item; it would have been better to have used a different terminator such as ':'), SHELXL has to replace ';' in this example by ')' when embedding the.hkl file, and SHREDCIF repairs the damage by turning a leading ')' in an otherwise blank line back to ';'.
There is speculation that the narrow angle may have been a thermoregulatory adaptation to colder climates a compromise exacerbating an already existing design weakness (Marshall 1996).
But he said a fire was unusual, and that much would depend on whether the Boeing fire was a "one off" or was due to some design weakness.
The design weakness occurred just as mobile operators were becoming keener on operator-specific, customised handsets.
The next two sections describe fundamental components of the architecture involved in the identified design weakness.
