Patent ID: 8645871

Claim:
A method for tilting a graphical user interface within a display for a device, the display in a planar arrangement defined by an X-axis and a Y-axis, the method comprising: displaying a first view of a flat layer in the graphical user interface; receiving an input indicating a tilt of the device, the tilt including a component of rotation around at least one of the X-axis or the Y-axis of the display; applying the tilt to the first view of the flat layer to generate a tilted view of the flat layer in response to the input, the tilted view including a rotation of the first view of the flat layer around at least one of the X-axis or the Y-axis on the display; displaying the tilted view in the graphical user interface, the tilted view including an icon that was not displayed in the first view, wherein the first view is displayed instead of the tilted view if the tilt is below a threshold rotation and the graphical user interface depicts a 3-dimensional environment including a Z-axis orthogonal to the display; and depicting parallax between a first element with a first Z component and a second element with a second Z component as the graphical user interface changes between the first view and the tilted view.