Dustin Mierau

Dustin Mierau

Designer of Software in Portland

About

Co-founder and lead designer behind Path. Helped build Napster. Building nice things for Figma and Playdate.

Projects

2023

A creative space for Playdate. Kind of an homage to creative software from my childhood, like Kid Pix, HyperCard, and Mario Paint.

2010
Path

The original mobile social network for close friends and family.

1999
Napster

Napster for Mac OS was the official full featured Napster client for Mac users.

Side Projects

Ongoing

An attempt at a faithful remake of the classic Mac communication software Hotline. Remade in Swift and SwiftUI for modern macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. Open sourced to help the project live on with help from the community.

Ongoing

A plugin for Figma that will translate parts of or entire designs to over 130 languages.

Ongoing

Generate pixel perfect 2D noise textures for your Figma designs. Support for density, color, depth, stretching, blurring, and vignetting.

2023

A digital talking crank operated calculator for Playdate. Beyond niche. Super fun.

2022

An experimental open source Game Boy emulator for Playdate.

Work Experience

2018 — 2021
San Francisco

Helped June create the first smart countertop oven. Control your oven from your phone, see status, get notifications. Smart programs that know what you're cooking. Goal was to encourage more people to cook at home. Acquired by Weber where I helped design their smart grill interfaces and accessories.

2010 — 2015
San Francisco

Shaped private and personal social networking. One of the first real mobile social networks (before Facebook or Instagram).

2004 — 2006
Palo Alto

A desktop based peer-to-peer social network. First of its kind. A flop that pivoted into a decently successful music news and streaming service.

2000 — 2003
San Mateo

Of the first 10 employees. 3 of us were hired to make our Napster client for the Mac OS official, which we lovingly named Macster. Helped move the world to digital music.

Awards

2012
Fast Co. Innovation Award

Contact

GitHub
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