The phrase "a poor design" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is inadequately planned or constructed, often in the context of products, systems, or processes.
Example: "The user feedback indicated that the app's interface was a poor design, leading to confusion among users."
Alternatives: "an inadequate design" or "a subpar design."
If your website has a poor design, people will think you sell "naff" products or services.
I couldn't figure out whether it was broken or simply a poor design, but I could not get it to stay in place.
However, many of these applications fail to achieve the desired benefits of gamification, mainly because of a poor design.
The large value of these factors can easily influence the control performance in the presence of a poor design.
Simulation studies show that a poor design of an internal composition controller gain could decrease the accuracy of reactive distillation linear process model.
It relates to the final success of product development, because a poor design concept can rarely be compensated at the later stages.
Much lower rates have been reported for online health surveys, however, possibly because they involved less appealing subjects (than sex or influenza), had a poorer design, or were less creative in their motivation and incentive strategy [ 18, 19].
While the message below the box does state that they do not store passwords, the point is more that the practice of users directly entering credentials from another site is a very poor design decision and generally very poor practice.
Her discomfort with cetaceans in captivity is partly a matter of personal ethics, but it's also a response to poor design.
1959: With a twee name, terrible gas-mileage, and the grill that some critics argued looked like "a vagina with teeth," the 1957 Ford Edsel was a monstrosity of poor design and poor planning.
They are too interconnected, with too many exceptions and edge cases, or even too much overcomplication that has arisen as a result of poor design over many years.
