Meet our Senior Mechanical Designer, Luther! #MeetMako

What is #MeetMako?

As a Product Design Firm, the MAKO Design + Invent team interacts with our clients on a very close basis in order to be very transparent about the design process and the development of an inventor’s product. We are a team of positive, friendly, and happy people who are excited and passionate about design, growth and learning about new ideas and concepts every day!

With three current open offices, each of the members in each office carries a unique and special persona that adds to the amazing quality of what makes MAKO Design + Invent so great.

We started the #MeetMako campaign to allow clients and future clients who are interested in working with us to learn more about who we are and who you’ll be working with!

This campaign also serves as a great resource to learn about who will be helping you produce and develop your product, as well as a little more about MAKO Design + Invent, what it’s like to work here and the office culture!

Last week, we introduced our office coordinator, Helen. This week, we are introducing MAKO’s Senior Mechanical Designer, Luther Yap!

Meet MAKO’s Senior Mechanical Designer, Luther!

A core member of our team here at MAKO Design + Invent is our Senior Mechanical Designer, Luther Yap! Luther brings over 20 years of industrial design experience to our design team and a wealth of knowledge and insight.

Before starting his career in industrial design, Luther studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design for Industrial Design and graduated top of class. Since then, he’s acquired a long history of experience in the industrial design field by being exposed to a number of different design and tech start-ups and companies local to Toronto!

As MAKO’s Senior Mechanical Designer, his responsibilities involve pushing the envelope to take products to their next step by providing experienced and great mechanical detail to the product ideas we receive here at MAKO.

Our clients at MAKO Design + Invent typically like to take their ideas further through small runs to understand how their products will perform in the market. As such, Luther’s role is important to the design process because with his years of experience in industrial and product design, he offers extensive insights into how well products or designs may perform in the market.

Working as MAKO’s Senior Mechanical Designer

Working at MAKO Design + Invent involves something new every day! Since we offer so many services, it’s important that our team members are able to wear many hats in their responsibilities and be ready to take design to the next level with innovative ideas and designs.

Luther shares that one of the most important things that one needs when designing is the freedom to explore ideas, as we do at MAKO! Luther explains that exploring ideas is beneficial not only for the designers but also for everyone – clients included- since it opens up a world of possibilities for what product designs can offer.

Luther’s motivation stems from seeing newer and younger talent jump into the design field. With this in mind, Luther shares that his favourite thing about working as MAKO’s Senior Mechanical Designer is being around a younger group of people and designers because he believes that younger people think differently, which offers great insight into how different perspectives work within the design field.

Interested in learning more about our design team? Check out our #MeetMako blogs on our electrical designer, Navdeep, or our industrial designer, Paul Davis!

If you have a great new invention idea and you’d like to learn more about this process, get in touch with MAKO today and visit our website to find out more. Or feel free to give us a call at 1-888-806-MAKO, and we can set you up on a call with our product strategist!

About: MAKO Design + Invent is the original firm providing world-class consumer product development services tailored to startups, small manufacturers, and inventors. Simply put, we are the leading one-stop-shop for developing your physical product from idea to store shelves, all in a high-quality, cost-effective, and timely manner. We operate as one powerhouse 30-person product design team spread across 4 offices to serve you (Austin, Miami, San Francisco, & Toronto). We have full-stack in-house industrial design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, patent referral, prototyping, and manufacturing services. To assist our startup and inventor clients, in addition to above, we help with business strategy, product strategy, marketing, and sales/distribution for all consumer product categories. Also, our founder Kevin Mako hosts The Product Startup Podcast, the industry's leading hardware podcast. Check it out for tips, interviews, and best practices for hardware startups, inventors, and product developers. Click HERE to learn more about MAKO Design + Invent!