It aims to explore the types of design innovation based on rural community resources, and to provide methodological guidance for designers to participate in the reconstruction of contemporary villages. Based on the author's participation in domestic and foreign rural community construction projects and other well-known cases, the design cases are analyzed from two angles of the use of resources, design purposes and methods and the relationship between rural communities. The design innovation based on rural community resources can be divided into dominant resources inheritance type, inferiority resource transformation type and external resource introduction type according to resource utilization mode. According to the relationship with the rural community, it can be divided into the concept design for community design, "and" / "by" community design and community excitation. The design innovation oriented to the rural community embodies the innovation characteristics of the "design 3.0" era, that is, the concept of "big design", which pays attention to the integration of disciplines and collaborative innovation, and maintains the design methodology of open innovation based on the local community resources, giving full play to the social value of the design and improving the design feelings of well-being of the disadvantaged community.