The phrase "as a layout" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific arrangement or design of elements in a document, webpage, or other visual formats.
Example: "The designer presented the new project as a layout that emphasizes user experience and accessibility."
Alternatives: "in terms of design" or "as a design".
"From what I have read, you worked as a layout man at what was referred to as a porn magazine.
Returning to the UK after a year in Colombia he went into magazine design and ended up as a layout artist on the Daily Express.
He gained notice as a layout artist in the Calcutta office of a British advertising agency he joined in 1943, and became the art director in 1949.
After graduating with a degree in criminal justice, he ended up working as a layout designer for a small Massachusetts newspaper and later a software engineer.
He went to art school to study commercial design and got a job as a layout artist and graphic designer for a local advertising agency, but he realized that he didn't want to do that after all.
"Musicians settled in this area because they could catch the el train right to the jazz clubs in Midtown," said Mr. Maringelli, who works as a layout man at the Times Newsweekly in Ridgewood.
Mpire's Shopwave doesn't have as extreme a layout as BrowseGood's treemap visualization, or as customizable as Like.com's color and shape driven engine.
In this case, it is better to consider plot elements as part of a layout that can be followed for describing the pathway of a story.
Tyler Brûlé, the editorial director of Wallpaper, chose a knotty pine room in Germany as a setting for a layout in the debut issue of his fashion magazine, Spruce.
We investigated a class of graphs that we call quasi-hierarchical, which can be effectively visualized using a spanning tree as the backbone of a layout algorithm.
As it is, a layout that permits natural ventilation and yet does not admit too much outside noise is a minimum requirement.
