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Dustin Mierau

📍 Portland, Oregon
⌨️ Product Designer
🍁 Canadian

Figma

Playdate

Path

Napster

WWDC 2012

Toward the end of high school I, along with two friends, built a Napster client for Mac OS which we named Macster.


Napster soon hired us to make it their official Mac client and rebranded it simply Napster for the Mac.


It’s still mindnumbing to reflect on the scale we reached early ‘00s with such a small team.

A company I started with Dave Morin and Shawn Fanning.


Our goal with Path was to build a smaller social network for you and the people you care about. Private. Whimsical. And with you wherever you go.


This was quite novel in 2010 when even Facebook didn’t yet have an app for iOS.

The Playdate is a little handheld gaming device that is pure joy, from Panic. A system anyone can build for. Plus, a crank!

Figma is a collection of creative tools for designers. Aside from its fantastic set of features, it’s also social and extensible. I’ve made a few plugins for the community.

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