Digital design tools as a central issue of the modern visual culture

The research subject is the opposition of the specificities of digital media and the creative process. The influence of digital tools in the context of speculative thinking on the architecture has been observed. The purpose of the article is to analyze the fundamental features of digital tools in the main stages of professional experience development. It has been shown that digital media as a visual abstract system at the present stage of its development is able to directly influence the immediate physical environment surrounding us.