Articles
Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal
What happens when one designer steals from another designer? This article attempts to explain the connection.
Online publication ~ SitePoint.com
Great Homepages Really ‘Suck’
An argument in favor of homepages with more meat than less.
Online publication ~ SitePoint.com
From Stimuli to Heroes: The Art of Branding
What do stimuli and heroes have to do with branding? What is ‘chunking’? And how about ‘satisficing’? This abbreviated PDF lends a few answers.
Article in draft ~ PDF, 1.3 MB
Solving iLife’s ‘Puzzling’ Imagery
Apple’s amazing iLife puzzle diagram served as the inspiration for a recent catalog design. I’ll show you a few tips for quickly creating seamless puzzle pieces in vector-based programs.
Online publication ~ cameronmoll.com
Fundamental Principles of User Interfaces
Some of the world’s best interface designers know which rules to keep and which to break. But you can’t break the rules until you know what they are. Know ’em before you break ’em.
Presentation ~ PowerPoint, 1.8 MB
- Did you know…?
Both “Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal” and “Great Homepages Really ‘Suck’”
are listed on the required readings for
AL 210 (Introduction to Web Authoring) at Michigan State University.
“[Cameron’s article] is valuable in that it gets SitePoint readers thinking—something we strive to achieve through all our content initiatives.”
–Georgina Laidlaw, Editor, SitePoint.com