How to use "designs" in a sentence

"Michael-" she began, intending to tell him that she was going to stage another show within the next year, that she didn't want to be represented by only one production at a time, and that she even had distant designs on New York and Broadway, where the return of Busby Berkeley - style musicals might be greeted with cheers.

Computer-controlled designs ebbed and flowed, a riotous and mad - but curiously beautiful - excess of energy consumption.