I haven't shared much of this project from June, which is a shame cos I think it's some of my best work.

A big holy shit moment for me in building this project was seeing the range of various US, Chinese, N. Korean missiles. Especially when launched from an aircraft bomber …

Starlink Mini offers fast, reliable internet on the go—great for traveling, camping, exploring, boating, RVing, and more. Stay connected without dead zones or slow speeds. Order online in under 2 minutes.

Built with the help of @sveltejs @maplibre @MapTiler and @dimfeld's awesome svelte-maplibre library 🧡

Go check it out and drop me a line with any questions:

From a design perspective, Pacific Islands are challenging with their sparse and tiny landmasses in a giant ocean … adding wave pulsations helps emphasise them

With intelligence data updated daily by people on the ground, the platform is a first-of-kind for understanding a complex and dynamic region from an island and islander perspective.

Today we launch the Micronesia Security Monitor: tracking geopolitical, maritime, and military developments in the north-west Pacific. Last upended by violence during WW2, Micronesia is once again the object of geostrategic competition for power, now between the US and China.

Improved version with better timing function and opacity steps. Using @maplibre

Experimenting with animated wave lines for a map of the Pacific, where land masses need extra visual weight due to being so tiny and far apart. What do you think?

10/10: Respect your data. Data is vulnerable to misrepresentation. Always provide context and never mislead. Your job is to set the stage and let the data do the talking. -- Read the full manifesto at: brody .fyi/information-design-manifesto

9/10: Abstract thoughtfully. Information design connects reality to abstraction, the macro to the micro and vice-versa. To disguise complexity with design is not to bend the underlying truth. Let the part tell the whole to reduce cognitive load, but maintain nuance.

8/10: Fight entropy with elegance. The world only gets more complex: history only gets longer, datasets larger, technology more sophisticated. There is ever more to learn, and it gets ever more complicated. To protect society from this onslaught of complexity, we find signal in

7/10: Details are everything. We invert the 80-20 rule: 80% of our effort goes to the tiny details, because they separate remarkable work from good work. We care for every pixel, pigment, and interaction, knowing that big things attract people but small things keep them around.

6/10: Reject soulless work. Business intelligence dashboards are the antithesis of our craft—corporate spreadsheets in cheap suits. We reject their mass-produced insights, bland designs, bloated code, suggested charts, and janky interactions.

5/10: Liberate good data. Terabytes of valuable data remain trapped in prisons of academic reports and government databases. It’s our responsibility to deliver justice and set them free.

4/10: Get to intuition. Emotion drives behaviour more than knowledge—just ask the unhealthy doctor. Information designers don’t show people data, we make them feel it in their bones. Information learned during an immersive activity becomes intuition: visual explainers, stories,

3/10: Champion inconvenient truths. Most people have data trust issues. They will ignore new information, even irrefutable information, if it contradicts their existing beliefs, identity, or investments. Disguising the evidence with good design helps it slip past the brain’s

2/10: Find Zen in the Venn. Our toolkit is an interdisciplinary overlap of software engineering, colour theory, cartography, geometry, psychology, storytelling, interface design and data science. Be a specialised generalist with creative technique and technical creativity.

1/10: Be real, then good. Our responsibility to inform demands authenticity first and excellence later. Our obsession with quality means we don’t ship until our work is bulletproof, with minimal ambiguity and nothing left to add or remove.

Today I'm publishing the Information Design Manifesto: A short philosophy and guiding principles for the craft of information design. Full copy on my website, but here are the 10 principles 🧵⬇️

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