Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology

©  David C. Evans 2017

David C. Evans, Bottlenecks, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2580-6_6

6. Motion Perception

David C. Evans¹ 

(1)Kenmore, Washington, USA

For over 100 years we’ve used the word “movies ” to refer to your rapid slideshows of still-frame pictures in which nothing actually moves, so it is no secret that the entire entertainment industrial complex is founded on an ­illusion—the illusion of motion.

But for 100 years, meme-makers involved in the film industry have referred to the wrong psychological tendency to explain why it works. Don’t feel bad, so have many psychologists.

Sorting out all of this confusion will help those of you who make movies or video games understand the barriers you’ll encounter in representing exciting action scenes with bleeding-edge ...