The most common user action on a Web site is to flee.
PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.
I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
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.
Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible