Patrick Dugan

Patrick Dugan

Product Designer in Seattle, WA, He/Him

About

I'm a designer based in Seattle, WA and a University of Washington graduate.

Work Experience

2021 — Now
Seattle, WA

I'm currently a member of the design team at Meta, working on Messenger.

2019 — 2021
Redwood City, CA

I worked as an individual contributor and people manager within CZI's Science initiative on design systems and zero to one product development.

2015 — 2019
Mountain View, CA

I was a founding member of and led Quora’s design team for ads and monetization. In this role I was responsible for designing and building Quora’s Ads Manager and consumer facing ad units. I also led redesigns of Quora’s messaging and email platforms.

2014 — 2015
San Francisco, CA

I worked as the lead Android and Web designer for a redesign of Nextdoor’s local events platform. I additionally led mobile design for a project that connected neighbors with local service providers.

2011 — 2013
Mountain View, CA

I led design for internal tools used within Google Research as well as led the design and front-end development for projects on the Google Transparency Reporting team.

Projects

2022

I was one of the lead designers for the initial rollout of encrypted messaging on Messenger and Instagram Direct.

2017

I designed and helped engineer Quora's consumer facing ad units as well as their business facing advertiser tooling.

2014

I redesigned Nextdoor's event platform across web, iOS and Android.

Side Projects

2021

Hikearound is the easiest way to discover, save, and share great local hikes. Download the app today by visiting tryhikearound.com.

Writing

2021

A deep dive into how I designed and built Hikearound's email and push notification system.

2016

Insights into how design decisions can have unexpected and sometimes dangerous consequences.

2014

The collaborative process that Nextdoor uses to ship new features.

Contact

Twitter
GitHub