The phrase "adopt design" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of embracing or implementing a particular design or design approach in a project or process.
Example: "In order to improve user experience, we decided to adopt design principles that prioritize accessibility and simplicity."
Alternatives: "embrace design" or "implement design".
In essence, this work done here has been demonstrated to be of assistance to designer to adopt Design for End-of-Life.
More recently refugee groups are asking NGOs in their space to adopt design principles, which could be transformative.
With the same spirit, we adopt Design Thinking (DT) as a tool to complement PAR in architectural research method.
Organizations tend to adopt design elements from two sources: influential external groups, such as competing firms, and other institutions to which the organization may be tied (e.g., through shared board members).
However, original equipment manufacturers currently lack incentives to adopt design for disassembly for products sold in a Business-to-Consumer market, which are jointly collected and treated at end-of-life.
"Digital transformation requires employees to learn new skills such as how to create algorithms, participate in hackathons and adopt design thinking," says Blain.
In the class, students adopt design-thinking mindsets and creative processes with the help of an ecosystem of collaborators, including top Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, social capitalists focused on impact investing, and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford.
Engineers must adopt designs that minimize others' ability to copy them, since outright copying is common and unregulated.
A bipartisan bill in Congress introduced in January, called the "Bird-Safe Building Act", would require new federal buildings to adopt designs that keep migrating birds in mind.
Likewise, when a systematic sample is obtained, it is common to adopt design-based estimators assuming e.g. simple random sampling (SRS) although it is well-known that SRS variance estimators usually are positively biased under systematic sampling.
As you'd expect, many large corporations have also adopted design thinking.
