# Nick von Bargen

> Principal Industrial Designer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nickvonbargen

San Francisco based industrial designer

## Work Experience
### Principal Industrial Designer @ PopSockets
Jan 2025 – Present | Boulder, Colorado, United States

### Industrial Design Contractor @ Unknown
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Industrial Designer @ PopSockets
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Industrial Designer @ PopSockets
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Industrial Design Contract @ Native Design
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked as an industrial design contractor assisting with designing, rendering, animating and producing mockups and specs for various medical products the design team at Native was working on.

### Industrial Designer I @ HTC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
I worked on the Phone and IOT team taking products from concepts to the manufacturing line. I have executed several design concepts in 3D for phone and IoT projects, I’ve visualized CMF implementation, worked with engineering team to visualize the UX and other innovative technologies. I led projects to further explore potential future products and technologies. I produced product specs to be released to mockup and manufacturing vendors in 2D. I worked with the team to develop creative and unique process to handle the CMF and materials to make our devices stand out among it’s competition. I created cleanly surfaced CAD models and high quality renders for conferences and presentations. I contributed to phone designs being released later in 2018 and 2019.

### Industrial Design Intern @ DEKA Research & Development
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Industrial Design Intern @ IDWorks llc
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Industrial Design Intern @ ECCO Design
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | NY, NY
Provided research, concepts and product designs to several large technology companies with a focus on user experience and interaction.

### Retail Sales Rep @ Empire Marketing Strategies
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Conducted studies of the sales of certain products and was part of the installation process of new cooler units and overall renovation overhauls.

### Product Designer @ LiveWell Collaborative
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Worked with a small team to research and create products to make fresh produce more readily available in urban areas.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design
University of Cincinnati

### Industrial Design
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

### Lakota West High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nick-von-bargen-8293b188
- Portfolio: https://www.nickvonbargen.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13