Study on Innovative Use of Resources

Resources not only mean natural resources, but those hidden within a system itself. By reasonable approaches, the human society can make full use of resources within systems and achieve optimal use of resources. This paper introduces to product design the idea of resource analysis, i.e., an analysis of the internal and external resources in a system. By real-world examples, this paper intends to demonstrate that resource analysis is really critical to help designer to design products that are most resource efficient.