Darrius Taylor

Senior Interaction Designer, Cloud Platform Security (Nov 2024 – Present) · Interaction Designer, Cloud Security (Jan 2022 – Nov 2024)

Agentic Security & Abuse Defense

• Interaction designer for reCAPTCHA: the admin console, the policy-authoring experience, and the analytics surface where a customer sees how much of their traffic is automated.
• Defined how automated-agent traffic is counted and shown (verified versus merely unique), so the number an admin acts on is one engineering can defend.
• Designed the risk-simulation experience for a preemptive security product: side-by-side before-and-after exposure scores, and pending states that hold a user through a 24-hour verification window without reading as failure.
• Replaced a multi-screen, expert-only configuration flow with a conversational canvas validated in usability testing, collapsing setup to a single guided step.

AI Systems I Built

• Multi-agent orchestrator: owned MVP scope, architecture, and the CI/CD work that kept it deployable. Re-architected from browser extension to injected script when the extension model could not reach every platform.
• Live commenting infrastructure for coded prototypes: defined the JSON schemas for human and agent interactions and stabilized the backend deployments.
• Design-system delivery layer with model-readable component instructions, so generative tools produce real components rather than approximations.

Platform & Enterprise Security

• Led end-to-end UX for the second generation of the VPC Service Controls troubleshooter, the tool customers use to diagnose why a request was blocked by a security perimeter. Built the prototype before the work was funded and ran research with large financial-services and payments customers to make the case, moving it onto the roadmap a full year early.
• Made the case for a reusable policy-authoring primitive after finding every Google Cloud security surface had built its own, and socialized it until teams outside my own adopted it; it became the foundation for a major access-control feature.
• Led UX and research strategy for a cross-team sign-in consolidation. When research support changed mid-project, stood up a substitute methodology (proxy A/B, desk research, internal customer-engineer sessions) and wrote the screeners, scripts, and insights schema the team still runs.

Principal Creative Technologist (2021) · Creative Technologist / Senior UX Designer (2019–2020) · Senior Software Engineer (2017–2019)

• Shipped production front-end code for consumer banking, then moved into design and kept shipping it, carrying concepts from interaction design through implementation rather than handing off a spec.
• Settled direction with stakeholders using working prototypes instead of mockups, so decisions were made against something real before engineering committed.