"development of design" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to the process of creating or improving a design. For example, "The development of design for the new product took a lot of time and effort."
The standardization of programming interfaces would make the development of design tools easier, and would also increase application developer productivity when moving from one machine to the next.
It focuses on how designers' use of a specific cognitive process, visualisation, can influence the development of design concepts.
The filmmakers interview a graphic designer, graffiti artist, and a letterpress extraordinaire as they trace the development of design and typeface, as influenced by errors, misconceptions, and the visual tendencies generated from developing technologies.
Then we have Helvetica (launching 16 April), the story of a typeface that is also the story of the development of design.
This country has made an enormous contribution to the development of design and is still at the forefront of that process.
The book "Design: Intelligence Made Visible" (Firefly Books), by Stephen Bayley and Terence Conran, traces the development of design from the 18th century to the present, offering an alphabetical who's who of pioneering manufacturers (like Fiat and I.B.M).
The development of design methods for timed patterns of spikes.
This model acted as a foundation for the development of design work.
Perhaps nowhere is this conflict more pronounced than in the development of "design customers" early in a startup's life.
Stress distribution studies have resulted in proposals for development of design equations of FRP plates bonded to concrete surfaces.
The chemical pathways of the formation of nitrogen oxides and destruction in flames provide the basis for the development of design strategies for low emission combustion sources.
