The Design Cage has a high-speed Internet connection and a wide variety of software and hardware:
| Publishing Tools | FrameMaker, Acrobat, Word, PowerPoint, Dreamweaver, Javadoc, Doxygen |
| Graphics Tools | Illustrator, Photoshop, ImageReady, SnagIt |
| Platforms | Windows, Mac OS, Linux |
| Languages | Java, C++, C, HTML, XML, JavaScript, JotScript |
The Design Cage has developed documentation for graphics and multimedia APIs, speech recognition technology, database and messaging systems, and network and test hardware.