"design standards for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are discussing guidelines or criteria for designing something. For example, "We must consider all safety design standards for the new construction project."
We are also working with architects on design standards for bird-friendly buildings.
Industry consortiums are in the process of design standards for the wireless networking of embedded devices.
Second, we need to revisit design standards for new residential development, to make sure the housing itself is at high enough density and that pedestrians and cyclists come first rather than last.
Traditional design standards for main and residential roads, and fears of crime, tend to dictate car-friendly layouts, with roundabouts, cul-de-sacs and spacious turning areas, and parking standards for residential developments are still high.
In 2006, the Japanese professor Katsuhiko Ishibashi resigned from a nuclear power advisory panel, saying that the policy of building in earthquake zones could lead to catastrophe, and that design standards for proofing them against damage were too lax.
In 2005, Pittsburgh claimed more LEED-certified square footage — meaning it had met Leadership in Energy and Design standards for energy-saving designs and building techniques — than anywhere else in the United States.
James Starley's 1871 Ariel set the design standard for the ordinary bicycle.
Some of the issues were addressed by a committee of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers, which developed a new design standard for low-power wireless technology.
Determined to transform the district and set the design standard for others to follow, Mr. Robins hired the New York architect Walter Chatham in 1997, starting him with a slender budget of $1 million to spruce up Dacra properties.
One intervention to address this issue, now widely adopted in the US, is a design standard for cigarettes.
Furthermore, IEC62279 (EN 50128) is the safety-related design standard for train control system software and it complements the content of software engineering under the framework of IEC62278.
