The phrase "are designed to lay" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the purpose or intention behind a design, often in contexts related to products, systems, or plans.
Example: "The new educational programs are designed to lay a strong foundation for students' future success."
Alternatives: "are intended to establish" or "are meant to create".
Developed in conjunction with non-governmental organisations and other lobbyists for the poor, these blueprints are designed to lay out how a country will fight poverty, and how savings from debt relief will help.Unfortunately, many of the anti-debt campaigners are not impressed with the rhetoric, or with the record to date.
Manipulating people for your own selfish ends is enshrined in PUA culture a "pivot" is a girl you use to raise your social status, "AMOGing" is a technique used to bully rivals away from girls you like and "boyfriend destroyers" are designed to lay a girl already in a relationship.
In general, steamers are designed to lay down water as you push the machine forward and suck it up as you pull it back.
Finally, the interference-suppression filters (decoders) are designed to lie in the orthogonal subspace of the received interference signal, i.e., the decoder of user 1 is the eigenvector of [H 12 v 2, H 13 v 3] associated with the zero eigenvalue.
Among the deadliest are antipersonnel cluster bombs that are designed to lie in wait, even for decades, for someone to step on them.
Britain's latest move seemed to be designed to lay the diplomatic groundwork for action by a coalition of outside forces, led by the United States, if there was no consensus at the United Nations.
The meeting is designed to lay the groundwork for a conference in London next month that would strengthen a 1987 treaty that restricts the chemicals, cholorofluorocarbons, or CFC's, and eliminate production of the industrial chemicals outright.
But her small circle of aides made little effort to disabuse journalists of the idea that the bus tour was designed to lay the groundwork for a possible campaign.
So Echo Look — which at first glance might seem a bit of a niche product (at least from a male perspective) — is designed to lay important groundwork for Bezos' big bet on fashion.
Sally Marks wrote that the article "was designed to lay a legal basis for reparations" to be paid.
The pilot project of The Cancer Genome Atlas, funded by $50 million each from the two institutes, is designed to lay the groundwork for comprehensive study of genomic factors related to human cancer.
