"refined design" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an item or product that has been carefully and expertly designed, typically resulting in a more aesthetic, higher quality version than standard. For example, "The original sketch of the chair was simple, yet the end result was a refined design that was both stylish and comfortable."
Mr. Williams was himself a poet, essayist, photographer and graphic artist — talents he brought to the meticulously refined design of the approximately 100 books of avant-garde poetry and fiction, folk art and photography that Jargon has published since 1952.
The sheets need an immediate upgrade — though all-cotton, they are slightly sheer and have a cheap summer-rental feel that is at odds with the rest of Mr. Ortega's refined design.
Refined design factors are suggested using a Monte-Carlo simulation to ensure the sustainable performance of CFRP-retrofit systems for climatic regions with which freezing environment is associated.
Refined design recommendations such as strength reduction factors are proposed to address the detrimental contribution of the environmental and physical attributes to the performance of CFRP-confined concrete, based on a Monte-Carlo simulation that can cover over 95% of all possible cases in a normal probability distribution of the confined concrete.
The images come from Italian blogger Luca Viscardi (via AndroidWorld.it) and show the Moto 360 with a slightly refined design compared to what was on display at Google's I/O developer conference back in June.
Seriously though, a touchscreen (however primitive) and a thin, refined design will sell against the most robust competitors, and the Que is refined as all hell (though sadly, delayed).
Future studies will seek to refine design and execution; thereby, paving the way to delineate biomarkers of primary headache disorders.
Military engineers then began to invent and refine designs for both guns and rockets.
Pile load tests are used to refine designs and for quality assurance.
As a founder of Mophie, a manufacturer of iPod accessories, Mr. Kaufman last year held a product design contest at the Macworld conference, with attendees submitting ideas and using a company Web site to refine designs and vote on the winner.
He refined the design and sent out about 50 booklets describing the proposal.
