Design Process Journal !: Forced Connection

Halt people!! Sorry for the late blog, actually there is supposed to be one more blog before this, but these week are kinda rough and im in a super lazy mode, so yeah. Anyway the topic of this week is a forced connection. A forced connection is basically the brain's ability to connect two or more totally different and random things such as words, objects, feelings, and ideas. The purpose of this activity is to brainstorm ideas and to see something with a different point of view.

For me personally, i think the idea is pretty fun and challenging at the same time, because it triggers us to think outside of the box without really cares about the barrier and the wrong possibility. It is kind of like lateral thinking, only it is clearer in the way of what things to relate to get a different kind of result, unlike lateral thinking that seems more blur in how we got the idea.

Anyway, this week activity at class we have to make force connection out of an object and some feelings. The teacher provides us some object to choose such as pencil, computer mouse, clock, cup, and candle. I chose computer mouse. Then i have to link it with 6 feelings such as passionate, sad, brave, creative, greedy, and hardworking.

First, i make the passionate mouse that has such features that is user friendly and very comfortable to use. The mouse covers the whole hand and has flexible material with air circulation so it creates a nice surrounding for the hand. It has detector to make sure the hand always in a fit condition, or else it will automatically activate the hand massage attached inside the mouse. It is also wireless and anti lagging to maximize the comfort of the user.

The second one is a sad mouse that has a small simple cube design that isn't fit to hand at all. It is slightly too small and hard to grip. It has short wire cable and often go lagging.

The third is a brave mouse. This is actually a negative kind of brave because the mouse are designed to be able to wrap itself with a strongest metal after 24 hours and wont be able to be use until it is fully recovered, which may takes several month. It wont work despite we are the one who purchase and considered as their master. The other name for this mouse is how-dare-you-mouse.

The fourth is a creative mouse that literally shaped up like mouse and the wire takes part as its tail. And there is one more creative mouse that has a shape of embracing hand. So once the user uses the mouse it will look like a holding hand.

The fifth is a greedy mouse that has every possible build-in features in the mouse including cup holder, heart rate measurements, board game, clock, map, satellite, and so on and so on.

The last is a hardworking mouse which able to process a hundred click per second and made with a very strong steel that can cope with any kind of user.

It is altogether looks like this. At first it is uncolor, but i feel it too empty and too many word then add some colors. It is still looks undecent and messy, though, but it is the best effort i can make right now, apologies.

There are many examples of forced connection artworks. Many things we don't realized but actually are created from forced connection, such as our advanced smart phone that has everything inside including camera, etc, etc. Or even until the weirdest invention that actually pretty mind-blowing such as cup holder hat. Maybe a simple spoon with a fork in one grip? You can invent something new by yourself too, you know.. As easy as putting things together :) good luck!