The phrase "an early design" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a preliminary version or initial concept of a product, project, or artwork.
Example: "The team presented an early design of the new app, showcasing its basic features and layout."
Alternatives: "a preliminary design" or "an initial design".
Such approach aims at enhancing designers' awareness of the value contribution of an early design concept on the overall PSS offer by complementing requirements-based information with criteria reflecting the fulfillment of customers and system value.
Binnington projected a slide of an early design on to the town hall wall.
Also in Brooklyn is Marine Park, an early design of the architect Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Wren managed to turn an early design they approved of into the noble building we see today: gothic in plan, baroque in spirit and crowned with one of the world's finest domes.
ON the subway home, I noticed that the tattoo-esque logo for Solange includes a honeybee sitting in the middle of what looked like an early design by the 17th-century mystic Jakob Böhme: a flaming tetractys.
In 2004, one said, the company rejected an early design for a Nokia online applications store — an innovation that Apple, Nokia and other handset makers adopted three years later.
And an early design — clusters of sleekly contoured towers set atop six superblocks — involved a whole cast of celebrated Western architects, including Bernard Tschumi, Diller Scofidio & Renfro and UNStudio.
One of the earliest computers was built at RAND based off an early design by John von Neumann.
At an early design stage relatively simple calculation tools can greatly facilitate design optimization.
This approach is capable of incorporating process intensification options at an early design stage.
Design and control of recycle systems must be integrated at an early design stage.
