RYCYN — Rethinking Movement.
Rethinking Movement.
Movement first. Shape follows.
RYCYN is a gaming device brand that designs its products from human movement, so that what a player can already do reaches the controls intact. As a first step it turned to the movement of the hand, and made RYF-001, a mouse shell for fingertip grip only.
Philosophy
We design mice around movement, not grip labels.
What a mouse shape decides first is not your grip. It decides an allocation: which movements of the fingers and wrist are held still, and which are left free. The position your hand settles into is the result — and only afterwards do we give it a name like palm, claw or fingertip. RYF-001 was designed backwards from that allocation rather than from an existing shape.
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RYF-001 / shapes maketh aim.
A fingertip hold leaves almost every movement free and supports the mouse on the fingertips alone. The freedom is real, and so is its cost: the support a shape should provide is instead produced by the muscles of the fingers. The design goal for RYF-001 was to take on that stabilising work in the shape, without taking away the freedom.
75 × 70 × 30 mm · 30 g (assembled)
Sold as a mouse shell only. It is not a finished mouse.
Assembly requires an Endgame Gear OP1 8K v2 (sold separately). The OP1 8K v2 is taken apart and the rear section of its PCB cut before fitting. Taking it apart and modifying it may void the manufacturer's warranty.
Shape is part of the input.
Wide by Design
Width lets the fingers open naturally, so the shape resists lateral drift instead of the muscles.
No Waist
No waist in the flanks, so the palm keeps its freedom to slide fore and aft.
Open Finger Angle
No steep flank angle, so whether the fingers stand up or lie flat is left to you.
Low Front
A low front, so vertical finger movement passes through unimpeded.
RYF-001 / shapes maketh aim — 01
A shape decides an allocation, not a grip
Where the design of RYF-001 begins. What a mouse shape decides is not how you hold it, but an allocation: which movements of the hand are held still, and which are left free.
RYF-001 / shapes maketh aim — 02
Why I started from the fingertip hold
Can stable aim exist in the grip with the least support? Why RYF-001 chose the fingertip hold, and the stabilising work that falls on the muscles as the price of its freedom.
RYF-001 / shapes maketh aim — 03
Making it wider — inverting the rule
Holding prototypes of different widths side by side showed that narrowness was stiffening the muscles and taking freedom away. Why RYF-001, a fingertip mouse, was deliberately made wider.
Approach
Experimental in thinking. Rational in reasoning. Precise in execution.
No performance is claimed. What is shown is the design decision — which movements the shape takes on, which it leaves to you — and the reasoning behind it.