This is why Powerpoint has been so popular, imho. It can lead to information atrocities but a sensible use of layout can provide a lot of information that the b

This is why Powerpoint has been so popular, imho. It can lead to information atrocities but a sensible use of layout can provide a lot of information that the brain can parse much more quickly than text, and directly provides a spacial layout for recalling it later as a mental model (for example, if you paint subsequent phases as actual boxes, instead of describing how something follows something). The idea also rhymes a lot with George Lakoff theory that we build concepts as towers of analogies and metaphors, whose bases are quite instinctive and frequently spacial (high is good, broad space gives you options, etc.)