As an emerging discipline, design morphology, with the advantage of “morphological research”, has been integrated with many disciplines, and gradually formed its collaborative innovation paradigm. Incorporating the concept of "ecology" into design morphology is actually expected to study design morphology with the help of the systematic thinking of “ecology”. The ecosystem of design morphology includes both the “natural ecosystem” and the “quasi-ecosystem” closely related to human beings, which exactly belongs to the research scope of design morphology. Advocating the ecological view of design morphology can not only helps design researchers to improve their values and worldview and engage in “morphological research” with new thinking and perspectives, but also contribute to the theoretical construction and thinking expansion of design morphology, and actively promotes interdisciplinary collaborative innovation led by design morphology. In addition, it can also provide a comprehensive assessment of the overall research and future development trend of design morphology, and can provide the new research ideas and approaches for the development of design.