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Environment-based Design (EBD) Environment-Based Design (EBD) is a design methodology that looks firstly at the environment in the design process (Zeng 2011, 2020). The nature of design is shown by the recursive logic of design (Zeng & Cheng, 1991). EBD indicates that design comes from environment, serves the environment, and changes the environment (Zeng 2011). As shown in Figure 1, the EBD includes three activities, which are environment analysis, conflict identification, and solution generation, during which design problem, design knowledge, and design solutions simultaneously and interdependently evolve as a part of the environment. The environment of a product is everything except the product itself, which can be defined in three dimensions, namely, environment types, life cycle events, and life cycle time (Zeng, 2021).