Does anyone recommend any particular piece of software for creating these types of visualizations with relative ease? I've always been a fan of animations for helping to understand some technical topics.
1. Build the visual content in an SVG with Inkscape. It should be easy for you to build the layout with assets/item to animate. Don't forget to group items and set names so you can reference them later.
2. Once exported, insert the SVG in an HTML page and add anime.js. This library will let you animate the content you just created (you should be able to reference your named items from Inkscape and animate them). The learning curve might be tough depending on your experience regarding animation (or CSS in general).
Good luck :)
As seen in their source code here: view-source:https://bloomberg.github.io/blazingmq/assets/animations/anim...
Pretty sure it was made by Airbnb, and used in tons of apps like Google home
Works really well
While I like the idea of something like anime.js and think it raises the ceiling on what’s possible, I’d still probably start with something like keynote just to get the idea out of my head and into a format I can validate before going into code.