Abstract:Mexico is the second country with obesity in the world, which attributed more than 68thousand deaths annually. The growth of obesity statistics is related to the population's overconsumption of calories and the lack of human energy expended, both linked to the environments in which we live, work, and play. A literature search was conducted to analyse the effectiveness of design for physical activities promotion.Design in every field had played an important role as a support of the problem with products and services that develop unhealthy customs but recently an increasing number of studies have shown that environmental design can play as a promoter of physical activity, battling the biggest problem of public health; metabolic syndrome and related diseases.An overview of different cases of environmental active design interventions, the relationship between physical activity with obesity, as well as projections of how to apply it in Mexico are presented.