{"id":34835,"date":"2026-11-10T09:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.logitech.com\/blog\/?p=34835"},"modified":"2026-11-10T09:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:18:07","slug":"how-logitech-gave-mx-master-4-a-new-look-without-touching-its-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.logitech.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/10\/how-logitech-gave-mx-master-4-a-new-look-without-touching-its-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"How Logitech Gave MX Master 4 a New Look Without Touching Its Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Logitech recently dropped the <\/span>MX Master 4 Developer Edition and Creator Edition<\/span><\/a>, the first special editions in the 20+ year MX history. Both are built on the core MX Master 4 performance architecture of the MX Master 4, but the key differences lie in the visual aesthetics and printed Easter eggs. We spoke to Logitech industrial designer Hugo Bourguignon about the design process behind them, from the first sketches to the final production parts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Special editions are a first for MX. Where did the idea come from?<\/b><\/h5>\n

From our community. Developers and creators have made MX the center of their desk setups, reviews and videos, and they share it with millions of people. Our brief was simple: give something back. MX Master 4 was already a new design in every field, from CMF to industrial design to UX, so we didn\u2019t want to change the product. We wanted to celebrate the people using it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The shape of MX Master 4 was off-limits. How do you design something new when you can\u2019t touch the form?<\/b><\/h5>\n

You treat the surface as your canvas. The form, the haptics, the Actions Ring and the MagSpeed wheel stay untouched, so everything we wanted to say had to come from color, graphics and finish. Our moodboard came down to three axes: performance signal, action and bold graphics. And we wrote one rule across the board: be the user, feel the user.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What did the first explorations look like?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Loud. We drew directly over renders of MX Master 4 in Illustrator and tried everything: typography, icon patterns, real lines of code, contour lines, rulers, calibration charts. Our first ideas covered the entire shell. The turning point came when we put them on real MX Master 4 units and picked them up. What looks right zoomed in on a monitor gets much smaller in your hand. From there, most of the work was about removing things.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Printing graphics on a mouse sounds simple. What constraints did manufacturing bring?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Quite a few, and they shaped the design as much as the moodboard did:<\/span><\/p>\n