I would say it depends on your domain expertise and the expertise of the chosen programming language. Of course, for very large projects with multiple unknown integrations this is not the case.

But if you are an expert in both of domain and the technology itself, you can well design it before starting the coding, because you already know the technical issues you are likely facing.

At least I have personally managed to design some projects and implement them without any design changes. But I also read countless blog posts about the limitations of these programming languages every day.