We are an industrial design, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering services company for consumer electronics products.
MAKO Design is a full-service consumer electronics product development firm. With a 25-person team across 3 offices (Austin, London, Toronto), MAKO has end to end in-house industrial design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering (both hardware and firmware), and prototyping services. We work seemlessly with your team to ensure your next-generation products are modern, reliable, and cost-effective. We have decades of experience developing hundreds of products. Whether it is a complete product re-design, new product line, or just a helping hand when in need, our team is here to ensure your product business is a booming success! Scroll down to find out more about how Mako Design is setting a new bar for hardware design services…

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MAKO’s Top Level Designers to Appear on National TV Show Make 48
As inventors ourselves, we know what it’s like to tinker with every concept and tiny detail of an invention. Our industrial design company will help create products with both short and long timelines depending on the specifications. So, what happens when you add a...
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From Helicopter Crash to Inventor: Veteran Partners With MAKO on Invention
It’s every pilots’ worst nightmare. You’re 30,000 feet high, soaring high above the clouds, with the sun beaming off your face - when the engine starts to stutter. Suddenly, it stops propelling the enormous metal contraption and you’re forced into a life-threatening...
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MAKO Named Official Industrial Design Firm of Austin Design Week
This year’s Austin Design Week featured many diverse events for design aficionados to explore, including designing parenthood, playing with chalk, exploring the world of artificial intelligence design, designing your career, and so much more. With the Austin...
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MAKO Hosts Design Workshop For Trend Hunters’ Future Festival
Known as one of the best innovation conferences in the world, Trend Hunter’s Future Festival is like Disneyland for any product development company, let alone any thought leaders in innovation. But, instead of hosting vendors who typically exhibit their brand or...
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MAKO Awards 10K to Cricket Based Food Company for Innovation
When you think of crickets, what comes to mind? Do you think of cricket vanilla-bean ice cream? How about chili con cricket? Or cricket Bolognese? These are just a few of the first things that come to mind for our engineering design firm because we recently awarded...
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MAKO Named to Inc 5000 List as Fastest Growing Company!
MAKO has always strived to be a leader. It’s our mission to be leaders in manufacturing, engineering, prototyping, and design. Now, we have been officially recognized as a major leader in North America, placing #1270 on the annual and much anticipated Inc. 5000 list!...
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MAKO Partners with Robert Herjevac & Frito-Lay for Dreamvention!
(AUSTIN, Texas) March 14, 2017 – MAKO Design + Invent is proud to announce their partnership with Robert Herjevac of ABC’s Shark Tank and PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay division to bring to life the Dreamvention contest, which is inspiring young minds to dream up their own...
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Entrepreneur Magazine Names MAKO as a Top Company of 2016
It’s been an incredible year for MAKO Invent. With only a few weeks left of 2016, we’ve been given the spotlight by the very magazine that ignited our Founders entrepreneurial spirit – Entrepreneur Magazine. The highly anticipated Entrepreneur 360 released the top...
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Product Development Services for Corporations

Industrial Design Services
World-class design practices, industrial designers from top-tier companies such as Dell, Nike, and Bose, state-of-the art software and computers, and over 500 products designed at MAKO – Just a few of the reasons we set a new bar for phenomenal Industrial Design services.

Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering services include Mechanical Design, Tool Design, Production Design, FDM, FEM, Ribbing, Draft Angles, BOM, etc.

Electrical & PCB Engineering
We are one of only a few design firms worldwide that have full PCB Design, Chip development, and Firmware coding, all in-house!

Prototypes / Prototyping
We do industrial, mechanical, and electronic prototyping. From mock-up prototypes to fully functioning finished electronic products. Our prototyping experience is bar-none: We make over 50 presentation-grade prototypes every year for clients.
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It’s extremely exciting to be revolutionizing the incredible industry of industrial design and engineering. For each project we earn, we are given the responsibility of developing something amazing to disrupt and improve an entire product market segment for the client. Our goal, simply put, is to make our clients’ product businesses hugely successful.
Kevin MakoNEWS ARTICLES ABOUT MAKO DESIGN

Entrepreneur Magazine: MAKO earns Top 100 Entrepreneurial Firms!
Ryerson University: MAKO boosts start ups
The Globe and Mail: A road warrior’s top 10 tips to make travel bearable
Google Official Blog: How MAKO discovered lean growth
BII2: Kevin Mako appointed as Fellow at Brookfield Institute for Entrepreneurship
Globe and Mail: each office abroad means a new set of rules
SAGE: Kevin Mako keynotes at SAGE Nationals
MEET THE MAKO TEAM!

Kevin Mako
President

Brett Larson
Senior Product Strategist

Tim Uys
Director of Design

Kit Skeoch
Electrical Engineering Manager

Joe Brod
Senior Product Strategy

Rick Stockton
Senior Mechanical Engineer

Leona Lyons
Project Management Director

Bruce Lee
Senior Industrial Designer

Robert Colgan
Senior Industrial Designer

Luther Yap
Senior Mechanical Designer

Christy Sepulveda
Industrial Designer

Matthew Castiglione
Senior Firmware Engineer

Sayyed Glassford
Electrical Designer

Joe Shim
Director of Finance

Manny Michellis
Electrical & Firmware Designer

Paul Davis
Industrial Designer

Amy Rogers
Project Manager

Cameron Navarre
Mechanical Designer

Justin Tyra
Mechanical Engineer
Ready for MAKO to turn your product into the next big success?!
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