Hi, I'm Badr.
I love ideas, truth, and beauty. I'm 35.7 years old.
I spend my days helping teams navigate complex engineering projects while researching information design: the art and science of making information understandable.
This website is my notebook, for articles, projects, and experiments.
The Library · OVP
Open the protocol →An open, deterministic protocol for information design: the same correct visual, for people and AI alike. 35 chart types built, 73 mapped, 16 design languages, one frozen spec.
The Museum
Enter the museum →A curated collection of the landmark charts, data maps, and diagrams that invented information design, from Van Langren's 1644 first graph to Du Bois in 1900. The first bar chart, the first pie, the first contour map, the first choropleth, each next to the idea it gave us.
Projects
All projects →Working software, mostly for people who run large projects.
Papers
All papers →Writing on information design under complexity, and project-controls practice.