Patent ID: 8860763

Claim:
A tactile user interface comprising: a touch sensitive display device; memory which stores instructions configured for displaying a widget and a set of graphic objects on the display device, the widget having a plurality of virtual sides, each of the sides being associated with a respective functionality, the widget being flipped, in response to a recognized touch gesture, from a first of the sides to a second of the sides, whereby the functionality of the widget is changed from a first functionality associated with the first side to a second functionality associated with the second side, the graphic objects each being associated, in memory, with a respective document having attributes, the graphic objects exhibiting a response to the widget functionality of a currently displayed one of the sides of the widget based on the attributes, wherein the response of the graphic objects includes movement of at least some of the objects relative to the widget, such that graphic objects representing documents having an attribute corresponding the currently displayed side of the widget respond by moving towards the widget and graphic objects representing documents without the attribute respond in a different way.