The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.

If you’re told what to look for, you can’t see anything else.

There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.