Is Design Dead?

Software design is something that we are told is very important, sounds very important and seems really important, but is not used a lot by us because it takes time and we can generally design stuff in the fly(probably because we work in little projects right now). I do not think that software design is dying and I actually think at is an idea that is used more and more(or at least that is how it seems to me).

Even if it is hard to design something that will absolutely not change is rally hard now because projects and needs tend to change designing things is important even if you will have to change some parts of the design later on you will rarely have to change everything and having some sort of base in order to build can be really good for a start even if you will have to change some part of the base and what was build in top of it, changes are normal and I think that design can make the easier to cope with because at least you know what needs to be changed in order so satisfy the new needs that the client have.

For me design is necessary and we need to know from the beginning that design have to be flexible because you might have to change it when it is needed, we should code over design and know that we might change both the design and the code, but even if we change the design it is helping us in what we are doing in the best case we will not have to change it but in the worst case it helped us do what we were doing even if that part have to be redone from zero, without design we would still have to change that part but building it would have been more difficult to do and if we did not had to change it it would have been more expensive to martian later on.