A New MoMA.org

I just sent the tweet above a few min­utes ago, but wanted to post some more con­text about it here. MoMA launched a revamped web site today, with a lot of hook-ins to social net­work­ing sites like Flickr, Twit­ter, YouTube, Face­book, etc. But, one of the more com­pelling changes is the addi­tion of a Facebook-style fixed nav bar, at the bottom:

The new MoMA.org, with its fixed nav­i­ga­tion bar.

NYTimes.com uses some­thing very sim­i­lar for Times­Peo­ple, as does Google with their Social Bar. So, this seems to be an emerg­ing trend – and though some point out that it’s not much dif­fer­ent of a con­cept as old HTML frame­sets, I kind of dig it. Web­sites have come a long way towards feel­ing like desk­top apps, and this is a good implementation.

The museum’s twit­ter feed cred­its MoMA’s inter­nal Dig­i­tal Media Team and forofficeuseonly.com with the design. Also, for more infor­ma­tion on the relaunch, check out the Times arti­cle that ran yesterday:

MoMA’s new site, which makes its debut on Fri­day, is an almost com­plete recon­struc­tion of how the museum presents itself online. It fea­tures live­lier images from its col­lec­tion and exhi­bi­tions, increased use of video and the new inter­ac­tive cal­en­dars and maps. But more impor­tant, the museum wants the site to trans­form how the pub­lic inter­acts with an insti­tu­tion that can some­times seem for­bid­ding and monolithic.