MAMBO
Digital design and development for the most important modern art museum in Colombia.
Client
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá
Year
2020
Services
UX/UI Design
Custom web development
A full redesign of MAMBO's digital presence, building a modular design system and scalable platform that finally matched the ambition of one of Latin America's leading modern art museums.
Overview
The Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá had redesigned its brand in 2020 with the ambition to compete with the best art museums in Latin America. But the digital side hadn't kept up. There were no clear rules for applying the new brand online, content creation was a constant struggle for the museum's team, and the result was a disorganized site with disconnected elements and a confusing user experience. The challenge was to build a digital system that could support everything the museum produces regularly, from exhibitions and events to educational programs and its permanent collection.
approach
We took on the full scope: content strategy, UX design, wireframing, prototyping, UI design and development. The first priority was restructuring the site's navigation through a user-centered process, with close attention to how the museum's internal team actually creates and manages content. From there, we designed a modular design system to bring order to the content, and developed typographic palette proposals, color and spacing rules aimed at creating consistency while setting MAMBO apart from other museums in the region. Development was done in WordPress from scratch, building every template on top of the design system with scalability in mind. We also added an entirely new section: the museum's art collection, now available online for the first time, letting visitors explore more than 2,000 works virtually.
tools
The right tools for the right project
Wireframes, visual design and interactions were all done in Figma. Development was built in WordPress using a custom template created from scratch with Sage. The site also includes several integrations, among them a database system housing the museum's collection of over 2,000 works.
A system built to grow
One of the core challenges was giving the museum's team the tools to manage a high volume of content without losing visual coherence. We designed a modular system of components that can be combined freely across pages, allowing MAMBO to publish exhibitions, events, educational programs and collection updates consistently and independently, without needing a developer for every change.
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