The phrase "amount of design" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the quantity or extent of design elements in a project or context.
Example: "The amount of design in this project significantly enhances its overall appeal."
Alternatives: "level of design" or "degree of design".
At the outset of designing a new product, knowledge about the product is limited, but the designer has a considerable amount of design freedom.
Couldn't a small amount of design consistency be sacrificed to make life marginally easier for the 10 per cent?
"You know what you're here for, and no amount of design will ever get your mind past that," said Ms. Paget, 45, a program manager for I.B.M.
It took around two years of hard work to develop our new system and there was a huge amount of design, testing and refinement involved.
This is not surprising because they often have an enormous amount of design, engineering and production knowledge invested in them especially so in the case of car engines.
These dresses are not just feminine in a way that now seems novel, they also reveal the challenge that Mr. Simons gave to himself when he took on Jil Sander: to do the most with the least possible amount of design.
This may account for the large amount of design-intensive new work: Megan Francis Sullivan's shelving, Tobias Kaspar's on-the-floor sweater, Chuck Nanney's melt-down abstract painting and the very '20s-looking figurative painting by Birgit Megerle.
The houses cost $10,000 each to build; they were ostensibly designed by Mortimer C. Merritt, but they followed the tried-and-true formula for such structures so closely that the amount of designing they required is questionable.
Options and Criteria were counted to understand the quality of the method in terms of the amount of design-information.
I haven't tested this theory, but I'm confident in my assumption that one day challenges produce a greater amount of designs that look like ass.
