Diego Báez | Industrial & UX Designer

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Mouse Design

Armadillo Mouse — ergonomic concept render showing the triangular textured grip inspired by armadillo armor, modeled in Autodesk Alias and Rhino, rendered in Blender by industrial designer Diego Báez

Year
2023

Type
Personal Project

Discipline
Industrial Design

Sofware
Alias 3D, Rhino 3D, Blender, Photoshop​

Problem Statement

As a modeler I value a textured grip on my mouse, especially when working quickly. To test textures and feel, I started a side project using SubD as clay to model simple shapes for the correct proportions of my hand. After this, I created several variants in Subdivision on Rhino. I chose the best shape and 3D printed it for testing, before creating the final model in Alias. Inspired by an armadillos’ robustness, I selected a triangular matrix shape for the texture which I programmed using Grasshopper. The final model was rendered in Blender.