Design tools are objects, media, or computer programs, which can be used to design. They may influence the process of production, expression and perception of design ideas[1] and therefore need to be applied skillfully.[2]
^Jane Anderson: Architectural Design, Basics Architecture 03, Lausanne, AVA academia, 2011, ISBN978-2-940411-26-9, p. 40
^Christof Ehrlich: The Construction of the Idea and its Tools, in: Design - Creativity and Materialization. Cottbus, 1999, ISSN 1434-0984.