Mouse DesignMouse DesignMeredith Burke

Mouse Research

The first step in designing a mouse is research. Here, I researched and redrew, in different perspectives, the school computer mouse and also a mouse that I found online.

Mouse Research cont…

More Internet Mouse Research

Ideations

Final Mouse Idea

After thinking and drawing 20 ideas of computer mice, I narrowed my selection down to one mouse which is the simple drawing shown at the right.

Idea Development Drawing Phase

In this process, I developed the drawing that I selected. I took the basic shape and started adding features and concentrating on the actual shape of the entire mouse. The picture to the left shows four different perspectives of the mouse.

ConceptThe most important aspect of my mouse is that it is comfortable to the contours of the human hand. The dip on the left side allows the thumb to rest comfortably. The left and right click buttons are positioned so the fingers do not have to strain. The scroll button in the middle does more than just scroll up and down; it scrolls left, right, and diagonally, also. The hand itself hardly has to move!

Final Design Development

Drawing Phase

This is my final

rendered drawing of my

final mouse design.

Digital Design Phase

This is showing different views and displays of my mouse design in the computer program,

Rhino.

Digital Design Phase cont…

This is the beginning of the rendering process. I added a plane, spotlights, and color to my mouse.

Introducing…Pulvinar