SOPHIE DUKES
WORK ABOUT CONTACT
ABOUT

Industrial designer, fluent in interfaces.

I'm a designer motivated by emotional design. I like staying with a product long enough to know its users closely, then carrying what I learn all the way down, through the interactions, the CAD, and the manufacturing details. I'm an industrial designer at Unbox Product Design, a small, award-winning San Francisco studio taking client passion projects from first sketch to production. There I lead parts of client projects: early research and ideation sketching, building working prototypes (both physical and digital), collecting test data to diagnose performance issues, making DFM changes in CAD, and presenting the findings in client decks.

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Sophie Dukes
2026
UNBOX PRODUCT DESIGN

Industrial Designer, 2026 to now. I work on prototyping, research, and CAD across hardware and softgoods products in development.

SFUXD

Session host, 2026. I led a personal brand and portfolio work session for the SF UX Design community.

2025
FREELANCE

Product Designer, 2025 to now. I partner with startups on product vision, aesthetics, and usability — rebrand and UI work for Weeknd, e-commerce flows for Cattlelog, and AI-assisted prototypes and front-end builds.

SETUPSYNC

Hackathon team, 2025. We took third place at Hackbubu during SF Tech Week. It was my first hackathon and my introduction to vibecoding.

SetupSync at the Hackbubu hackathon, SF Tech Week
WOMEN IN DESIGN SF

Mentor, 2025. I guide designers earlier in their careers through portfolio work and job searches.

2024
RH

Product Development Assistant, Lighting, 2024 into 2025. I ran vendor calls and design reviews for residential lighting collections, keeping design intent and manufacturing aligned across design, vendor, and gallery teams.

RH residential lighting collection
2022

Industrial Design Lead, 2022 to 2024. I led packaging design and operations for 300+ units of the Optic laser cutter, designed a custom brush accessory, and produced the drawings, BOMs, and documentation behind them.

Working on the Optic at Rendyr
Optic production at Rendyr
VIRGINIA TECH

B.S. Industrial Design, class of 2022. I spent four years in studio and the shop, and served as Secretary of the IDSA chapter.

Graduation, Virginia Tech
2020

Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2020 into 2021. I developed muon detector housings for cosmic-ray radiography of the Great Pyramid of Giza, and modeled its interior in CAD for digital simulations.

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Student Intern, 2020. I designed a mobile platform to provide access to electronics for installation, removal, and repair within tight quarters at a lab site.

SKILLS + TOOLS
SolidWorks Fusion 360 Rhino KeyShot Figma Adobe CC Lightburn Vizcom Claude ChatGPT Figma Make 3D Printing Laser Cutting Modelmaking Wood & Metal Shop Sewing Design for Manufacturing Packaging Brand Identity Design Systems Responsive Design User Flows Sketching & Ideation Typography & Layout Presentation Design PLM (Centric) Notion Jira
AWARDS + RECOGNITION
European Product Design Award, Gold→ 2021
IDEA Awards Finalist 2021
SFUXD — Led Personal Brand & Portfolio Work Session Aug 2026
Hackbubu Prize Winner, SetupSync Oct 2025
Women in Design SF Mentor Fall 2025
IDSA Virginia Tech, Secretary 2021 – 2022
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