By contrast, the Puma e-catalog has no rollovers or clearly defined turning regions - you have to guess in by ‘feel’ where the edge of the paper is, but you have no tactile feedback. It isn’t clear at first how the “hand” structure grabs - after lining things up by the thumb-pad or the curling fingers, you’ll discover that the pointer-finger stays still while the other fingers grasp around it. In retrospect, this is somewhat mouse-like - just nothing like how a real hand moves (try picking something up off your desk with thumb and pointer and notice how the thumb stays still). Finally, the required drag motion, which nonetheless results in a very cool display….

I’ve just spent quite a while trying to expand on “better at frustration,” and it has grown so long I think I’d better just make it a followup post - which see. Thanks - your question helped me refine my thinking.

There’s a future post in all of this about the tension between our desire for pixel-perfect fonts and our desire for accessible, abstracted XHTML that degrades gracefully. That essay has been written many, many times over in design-land - I’m just not sure what the text-art angle is, yet….