What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.
The most common user action on a Web site is to flee.
I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible
Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.
The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.