I think the reason the movies make it look "very measured and deliberate" is that the operators are the best of the best. They're so good in fact, that they never make mistakes.
Of course, this ignores that the point of a movie is to distill actual events down to their essence to convey an emotion, which isn't really what "click[ing] about a lot until we get what we want" is about.
TL;DR: smoothness is a property of movies, not a failing of humans or our software. I like the BladeRunner interface though.
Quite right, a film is never going to show someone getting it wrong. The post is more about thinking about ideals, and why they come across that way. But I'd like to come back to the point about trying and failing. Until recently, when you wanted to change a font in a word processor you never got any preview, you had to select it, if you didn't like it you had to undo, and then reselect again. This is the sort of thing I was getting at.
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I think the reason the movies make it look "very measured and deliberate" is that the operators are the best of the best. They're so good in fact, that they never make mistakes.
Of course, this ignores that the point of a movie is to distill actual events down to their essence to convey an emotion, which isn't really what "click[ing] about a lot until we get what we want" is about.
TL;DR: smoothness is a property of movies, not a failing of humans or our software. I like the BladeRunner interface though.
Quite right, a film is never going to show someone getting it wrong. The post is more about thinking about ideals, and why they come across that way. But I'd like to come back to the point about trying and failing. Until recently, when you wanted to change a font in a word processor you never got any preview, you had to select it, if you didn't like it you had to undo, and then reselect again. This is the sort of thing I was getting at.