There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.