The phrase "adapting the design" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing modifications or changes made to a design to better suit specific needs or requirements.
Example: "The team is focused on adapting the design to meet the client's preferences and improve functionality."
Alternatives: "modifying the design" or "altering the design".
While adapting the design to the lack of a combustion engine, exhaust system or transmission tunnel, exterior has taken inspiration from their modern racing cars as well as the instantly recognisable form of the 911.
These effects can be reduced by adapting the design of the constrictions.
Adapting the design for simplified maintenance operations can yield significant time savings.
This paper focuses on the process of adapting the design for use as the booster stage of the ILR-33 sounding rocket, under development at the Institute of Aviation in Warsaw, Poland.
The Zune interface is attractive, of course, but not really applicable to the mobile experience yet; however, I know people on the team and they are certainly capable of adapting the design ideas to a touchscreen-based, full-service mobile phone.
The results indicate that significant increases in process robustness can be made by adapting the design space based on the resin lot in use, rather than fixing the design space for all resin lots.
With that in mind, some computer makers are looking at adapting the designs of ARM, another phone chip company, for servers.
Paul Fichter, president, Tap Handles, which manufactures beer marketing products: "I suggest adapting the designs, currently optimized for one-off production, for manufacturability at volume.
These examples are not finite, any number of approaches could be used in adaptive design because the aim is to be flexible and adapt the design as the data is gathered and knowledge is gained.
To achieve that feeling, Jensen and his team adapted the design of each cabin to the local topography.
They say which ones they like, and then we work with them to adapt the design for home products.
