The phrase "are designed to align" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the purpose or intention behind a design, particularly in contexts related to goals, standards, or strategies.
Example: "The new policies are designed to align with our company's mission and values."
Alternatives: "are intended to match" or "are meant to correspond".
David Tovar, a spokesman for Wal-Mart, said in a telephone interview that "the changes are designed to align our staffing and organizational structure, to increase operational efficiencies, support our strategic growth plans and help reduce our overall costs".
Transaction mechanisms are designed to align individual behaviors with the system's interests.
Agency theory suggests that executive compensation contracts are designed to align the interests of shareholders to those of managers.
Two control laws are designed to align the symmetry axis along a desired inertial direction despite the revolution around the symmetry axis.
The recent revisions of the National School Lunch Program NSLPP) requirements are designed to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
The suspended carbon nanomeshes are designed to align obliquely to the bulk carbon post edges so that each junction, where four short carbon nanowires intersect, is supported evenly by the four nanowires.
Earlier-generation sequence alignment programs such as BLAST [20], [21] were designed to align DNA and protein sequences and to search through large databases to find homologous sequences.
Adjudicative institutions, however, can be designed to align better the interests of judges with the interests of the designer of the constitution.
The company said the program was designed to align the interests of executives with those of CSX shareholders, and it said explicitly that "the down payment remains at risk until the purchase loans have been paid in full".
In a statement, Zimmer said its bonus programs were "designed to pay for performance," and that overall compensation strategy was "designed to align the interests of its employees and stockholders".
FUGUE is designed to align multiple sequences against multiple structures to enrich the conservation/variation information.
