Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson

Designer, developer, and teacher in Greenville SC

About

I'm a designer, developer, and teacher interested in applied philosophy, psychology, and sociology in software design. I Co-Founded Pathwright with my twin brother in 2009.

Projects

2023

A new way to make paths. Launching in 2024.

2017

Create beautiful map posters of anywhere on earth.

2009

Create your own world of online learning.

Education

2002 — 2006

Side Projects

2020

Create goal contracts that keep you accountable for your goals.

2017
NeTi

An exploration of using a chatbot to answer questions about me.

2017

Open-source JavaScript implementation of Goal-Oriented Action Planning (AI technique)

2017

Visualize and compare the personality traits of groups

2012

Super simple signup sheets

2018

A wide discussion of education, work, and general productivity.

2018
Keynote Talk at Greenville Grok

Co-talk with my twin about how to find work that matches your core values.

Writing

2019

An article about how a block-based paradigm for hypertext will prevail over the conventional document-based structures of the web until now.

2018

How I "hacked" my self to launch more things in one year than I'd ever done before.

2018

A technical argument for why state management like Redux may no longer be necessary when using GraphQL for data fetching.

2017

Teachers/students alike mostly hate the popular LMSs out there... why is that?

2016

The idea of “teaching” an online course has been largely distorted to mean packaging up a bunch of videos and documents and then focusing all energy towards selling it. In real life, this would be like a professor selling you a textbook he wrote along with a few slideshows and then heading out the door.

Awards

2020

An exploration of using time/space visuals for focus and work

2019
1st place from Node Knockout
2008
Winner Widget Competition from eBay

Work Experience

2007 — Now
Greenville, SC
2009 — Now

A SASS platform for creating worlds of online learning.

2006 — 2009

Volunteering

2017 — 2019

Contact

Twitter
GitHub