The phrase "a working design" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a design that is functional and operational, often in the context of projects, products, or systems.
Example: "After several iterations, we finally have a working design for the new app that meets all our requirements."
Alternatives: "a functional design" or "an operational design".
He and his friend Steve Wozniak had developed a working design for a personal computer, which Jobs was eager to turn into a business.
In December, Adm. Robert F. Willard, the commander of United States Pacific Command, told a Japanese newspaper that China had a working design for an antiship ballistic missile that could strike aircraft carriers and could soon be ready for deployment.
He and David Childs have been meeting regularly since their negotiations in July, but they have not agreed on a working design, and it is impossible to say whether the Freedom Tower will end up looking like Libeskind's version, or Childs's, or something entirely new.
"The goal for them is to really prototype and walk away with a working design model, or one that is really close that they can continue on with," says Sarah O'Rourke, a marketing manager at Autodesk and Superhero Cyborgs project lead.
Roy phoned from St . Louis early in the process, and even though a working design had been approved, the understanding — Ida's understanding, anyway — was that certain, uh, changes could still be made, and these changes could, caveat, significantly alter and enhance and improve the original, shit-sucking plan, which she suddenly thought might belong, in miniature, on the wall of a Starbucks.
The SLDRAM consortium has yet to come up with a working design and is perhaps a year-and-a-half or more away from producing a workable chip.
DCA's new research project, Future-Flex, recommends workplace flexibility based on a work design mindset.
That may be a fitting end for a work designed to be as surprising and wily as an urban fox and as fleeting as a London smile.
A very different atmosphere indeed is conjured elsewhere today by sculptor John Sydney Carter, as his Falling Man 9/11, a work designed to commemorate the attacks eight years ago in New York, goes on display in the Harold Martin Botanic Garden at Leicester University.
Luigi Nono's "Prometeo, Tragedia dell'Ascolto," a work designed for adaptation to the place where it is being performed, receives its Swiss premiere, and Trevor Pinnock conducts Haydn's "Creation".
Or, of course, it could be a work designed to get heat for the company.
