Innovation Management Tool to Generate Fresh and Innovative Ideas for Product and Graphic Design

This paper explores the development of an innovation management tool for designers. Many aspects of education, profession, ways to connect and digital technologies changed in the last decades. Research on those 4 fields indicates the current situation and demand. The objective is to explore whether there is a possibility to create an optimized environment for designers, to generate fresh and innovative ideas for graphic-and product designs. The research findings are crafted into an innovation management tool. This tool should improve designers' skills, provide work according to their interests, create exposure, build a network with people that have shared interests for design and provide rewards in terms of money. A system flow demonstrates the way to realize this management tool. The prototype creates the possibility to validate the findings. Results and growing interest from designers as well as companies, proves that the innovation management tool meets the current demand for a creative environment to generate design concepts.