'misguided design' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a design that fails to achieve its intended purpose. For example, "The architect's misguided design resulted in an energy-inefficient building."
Others say that's as misguided as designing a flying machine by copying how birds flap their wings.
Most of their conclusions, however, at least heretofore, have been just plain wrong, or misguided, or designed only to lay the blame for the deterioration of the Church on those who have left and are leaving.
But the powder keg he is flirting with -- and I believe it is all misguided theater designed to keep the GOP on the evening, morning and mid-day news -- could blow up because his management of his own caucus seems amateurish and weak.
In recent years Ted has focused supporting Mexican organizations working to end the murders, corruption and impunity resulting from misguided drug policy designed in the United States.
Tells about Hugh Trevor-Roper's view that Hitler was "sincere" in his designs, and misguided, rather than evil.
They invented exotic financial instruments that nobody can price properly not even them and designed complex, misguided risk models that triumphed over common sense.
Whatever one might think of some of the details of these bills (no, they aren't perfect, especially the sometimes sloppily written and occasionally misguided SOPA), they are designed to address a serious problem of the online economy – foreign criminals and companies which use the Internet to sell or distribute illegal or counterfeit goods to American consumers.
While I give no credence to the misguided notion that Apple designs the iPod to die within a year, it's pretty clear that the company isn't interested in doing anything for the iPod that won't immediately make a buck.
Thus we get the understandable if misguided attempt to insert intelligent design into the science curriculum, to counter the philosophical (and theological) bias of militant secular evolutionists.
