About

Making complex things genuinely easy to understand

Most explainer content falls into one of two traps: it's either too shallow to be useful, or too technical to be accessible. explained.guide exists in the space between.

Every page on this site answers a single question: how does X actually work? Not what it is. Not its history. How it works — the mechanism, the physics, the sequence of events that makes it do what it does.

How we explain

Each topic page includes:

• An interactive diagram with 4 clickable stages that walk through the core process
• A hero animation that visualizes the dominant physical phenomenon
• Key components explained in plain language
• Practical tips — specific, non-obvious, and immediately useful
• A curated FAQ sourced from real questions people ask

The diagrams are the heart of the site. They don't just label parts — they show energy, force, or information moving through a system. The goal is that clicking through all 4 stages teaches you the core mechanism before you've read a word of text.

Topics we cover

We're building explainers across five categories: Home Systems, Technology, Science, Vehicles, and The Body. New pages are published regularly.

Built with

explained.guide is built with Astro, hosted on Cloudflare Pages, and designed to load fast on any device. Every diagram is hand-crafted SVG. Every animation runs on canvas with requestAnimationFrame. No frameworks, no bloat.