湖南省工业设计协会是由我省从事工业设计行业的企事业单位、社会团体和工业设计工作者，以及支持和热心工业设计事业的有关部门、企业家和活动家，自愿联合组成的全省性的行业性、学术性社会团体，是非营利性的社会组织。现有常务理事单位30 多家，团体及个人会员180 多人。
协会业务主管单位为湖南省科技厅。本协会的宗旨是：团结、联合湖南省设计行业及相关行业的企事业单位、社会团体和从事、支持工业设计工作的各界人士，坚持民主办会原则，以经济建设和社会发展为中心，推动湖南省工业设计事业的发展，实现设计的产业化，提高企业及其产品的市场竞争力，促进我省的经济发展和社会进步。
协会致力于提高湖南省工业设计创新能力。通过组织省内外、国内外设计交流，开展多种形式的设计活动，进行本行业的教育和培训，有效整合设计资源，加强产学研的交流与合作，鼓励企业建立产学研合作机制，促进形成以企业为主体、市场为导向、产学研相结合的工业设计创新体系，推进我省工业设计事业发展。

Hunan Industrial Design Association (HIDA) is a professional, academic and non-profit organization composed of companies, institutions, social organizations and designers dedicated to industrial design as well as relevant departments, entrepreneurs and social activists that support and care for industrial design in Hunan.
HIDA membership consists of over 30 standing directors plus some 100 corporate and individual members. Under the administration of Hunan Science and Technology Bureau, the Association is dedicated to boosting industrial design in Hunan, promoting industrialization of designs, improving market competitiveness of the corporations and their products, and thus facilitating the social and economic development of Hunan Province. Upholding the principle of democratic management, HIDA aims to achieve its mission through maintaining close contact with its members and focusing on the social and economic development.
The Association is committed to improve the industrial design innovation capability in Hunan Province through enhancing communication among domestic designers in and out of the province as well as with foreign professionals, carrying out various activities including training and education to realize an effective integration of design resources, and encouraging enterprises to set up a enterprise-centered and marketoriented cooperative mechanism of production, teaching and research.