Dorian Taylor

Hello, my name is Do­ri­an and I am keenly in­ter­ested in sys­tem­s. The kinds of sys­tem­s I find the most in­ter­esting are those in which peo­ple co­or­di­nate to­gether to learn, teach and make things. We can call these kinds of sys­tem­s in­for­ma­tion or knowl­edge sys­tem­s, or even or­ga­ni­za­tion­s or com­mu­ni­ties. What I do is de­sign new sys­tem­s, or come up with ways to make ex­isting ones work bet­ter.

Much of the work I do is with com­puter soft­ware, as soft­ware is uniquely helpful for work­ing with in­for­ma­tion. Much of the soft­ware I work with is on or around the Web, as it is uniquely useful for teaching, learn­ing, com­mu­ni­ca­tion and busi­ness. I have been work­ing with this medium pro­fes­sion­ally for about a decade — first as a vi­sual de­signer, then as a pro­grammer, and now as an ad­vo­cate of user ex­pe­ri­ence and over­all system de­sign.