We’re in This Together

Your People + Our People

Your team is passionate about the success of your products. Our people are passionate about design collaboration across all disciplines. Together, we use empathy and respect for each other’s expertise to build relationships that are curious, cooperative and confident enough to take risks. Mixer brings a fresh outside perspective, but we are always an integral part of your team.

Institutional Expertise - Individual Efforts

After 20 years, Mixer keeps getting better and better. That’s because of the incredible talent of our people and their passion to keep learning. Every member of Mixer brings a unique perspective and highly developed skills to your design challenges. Use the force multiplier of our entire team’s experience designing hundreds of products for almost every industry.

Lightning in a Bottle

Welcome to our studio. Our home, our soul. Creativity comes from many sources and that energy needs a resistance-free conduit to bring it to light. The dynamic Mixer studio in Austin, TX embodies a company-wide attitude of openness to ideas and possibilities. When you work with Mixer, you will be swept up into the flow of our enthusiasm for great design.

Build to Learn - Test to Prove

We design by learning. We learn by building. Mixer maintains a state-of-the-art prototype shop to facilitate quick and rapid ideation. Designing this way breaks us away from the pristine world of CAD and challenges our ideas to the rigors of gravity, friction and mass. We learn through fast failures. We prove that our ideas truly work.

What’s next for Mixer? : An Tran / Amy Williams

Julie, Blake and Chris joined together to form Mixer in 2002 with years of corporate and consulting design experience. They didn’t buy into the industry hype of “star” designers that rarely did more than one project for their clients. Their nature was to create long-term relationships, and we still enjoy many after more than 20 years. Integrity and Mixer’s healthy work environment have enabled them to build and maintain a talented team that continually learns, grows and laughs together.

In November 2024, we purchased Mixer and started the next chapter. We have been here since the early days and share a deep knowledge of the business and love for product development. We are excited to continue to deliver the same excellent services to our clients and find new ways to grow together. And good news – Julie, Blake and Chris are still here as Senior Advisors :)

We get it. You are taking the big risk hiring an outside firm and we aim to earn, then keep, your trust.

- An and Amy