Swedish studio Identity Works has several things of interest: one of them is the search form that, instead of appering in its usual place (usually upper left or center) is at the bottom page, just above browser status bar. A few years ago, this area of the screen would  generally been regarded as a point where the user’s attention won’t never focus and no one would ever have designed a functional component so secluded: what has changed in our cognitive habits?

Maybe the massive success of Facebook and its toolbar has changed our habits and thereby freed designers from composition patterns too restrictive?