Orthogonal browsing in object hierarchies

A method of navigating through an information space, said method comprising:

• for each object in an information space, determining attributes of said object and determining a child-parent relationship of said object with other objects in said information space;
• providing a display of said attributes in a first window, said display comprising a listing of at least a portion of said attributes;
• providing an attribute selector for selecting one or more said attributes;
• providing a customized tree-structure image of said information space in a second window, said customized tree-structure image dynamically based on which of said attributes is selected, said customized tree-structure image comprising a tree-structure representation of an entirety of said information space wherein only the objects in said information space directly related to said selected one or more attributes are included in said tree-structure representation;
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• providing a travel box display in a third window, said travel box display comprising a representation of objects in said information system satisfying said selected one or more attributes, said travel box display further comprising a direction selector for selecting one of an upward travel direction in said file system and a downward travel direction in said file system,
• wherein said travel box display and said customized tree-structure image each chance to reflect a selection made by said direction selector.