Abstract: A touch-optimized user-interface is presented that uses a multi-touch surface and a display screen that simultaneously displays a non-overlapping array of web-tiles, each of which represents a different website. Screen-touch events are captured, recognized and interpreted as functions that are applied to one or more of the web-tiles. A virtual framework contains virtual web-tiles that are webpages filtered and rendered to an array of pixel positions and values. The virtual framework specifies the relative size and position of the web-tiles with respect to each other, and their absolute position and size with respect to currently displayed web-tiles. The web-tiles are displayed as arrays, each capable of being interacted with independently via the multi-touch screen. The user-interface has multiple interpretation modes, each of which interprets the same screen-touch events differently.