A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

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.

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

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.

We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.

If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.