The Design/Coding article really highlights the progression of the development process from the past to the present well. I too think that writing code is very relevant and important for the process. But it's hard to overlook the way tools now have streamlined the design workflow to the point where one doesn't even see code much. Many of the design tools that I use rely on code, but it's presented to the user in a visual scripting format (nodes, spaghetti-code). And then tools like Azure export a good amount of the code for one's design automatically. Still, the logic behind code is always there and needs to be understood and prepared well.