Text-only data displays force readers to work too hard to understand relationships and structure. Visual layouts with connected boxes reduce cognitive load and let people actually comprehend information instead of just trusting it.
I'll tell you that it's not a matter of being, you know, inexperienced or non-technical that makes this, you know, sort of texty version hard to read. It's, it's that it's just hard to read. This is, uh, it's a, it's a one-dimensional display of a multi-dimensional, you know, uh, a phenomenon, right? Like the relationships and what are the tables. And, you know, this is the reason why you often find these things sort of laid out in multiple boxes with like lines between them is that, you know, using some, uh, using some layout metaphors. Can significantly, you know, lighten the cognitive load. So you're— I think your intuition, like, this would be a great opportunity for showing something visually, is spot on. I was just thinking, it's such a good point that, like, you know, because it's hard to read, you're in a position where I could say, I guess I just got to trust it.
