Jackson

Jackson

Jackson Murphy is a creative director and partner at digital agency, Pound & Grain. When he’s not cranking out words, he’s drinking coffee, obsessing over hotels, and figuring out where to travel to or just eat next.

  • Joined: November 18, 2013
  • Articles: 25

The Fascinating World of the Global Web

If you haven?t had a chance to click through the 113-slide deck on The Emerging Global Web yet, you?re seriously missing out. 25 years on and the web is finding new ways to be awesome, and here?s just a few…

Digital Tales From 2 Days in Seattle

This past weekend we had the great fortune to join the gang from Creative Social for their latest global event in Seattle. For this group of talented creative folk from across the globe, and for the record a heavy emphasis…

Best of the Web: May Edition

It may seem like we’re crazy about apps, but we like the web too. The question is, what’s the future of the web? Is it dying? Are apps taking over? Or are websites coming back in vogue as social media…

The Graveyard of User Interface Design

Even though Apple just sold another 43.7 million iPhones last quarter, countless products, screens and interfaces have apparently missed the memo on why design matters. Of course there are exceptions to every category and every rule, but it’s frustrating that in…

April Apps for Super Users

  Last week we read a study claiming that 176 million users open their apps more than 60 times per day. These app “super users” are beyond addicted to their phones, so it’s no wonder that every week even more apps are launched.…

The Return of R.B.I. Baseball

Nearly 30 years ago, one of the greatest video games of all time was born. R.B.I. Baseball, an absurdly rudimentary game for Nintendo in 1986, with its arcade style, simple graphics, and epic TV commercials was just too good to…

Seeking The Ultimate Goal Setting App

After the countless weather apps in the App Store, the next most popular apps for start-ups and creatives to tackle are the almost bottomless pits of to do lists and goal setting apps. It makes sense, creative people are always…

Where Food + Technology Meet

The intersection of photography, social, and our insatiable desire to eat tasty animal parts and vegetables means that there is a constant stream of delicious apps, websites, and businesses making food increasingly digital. Here are 6 tasty digital dishes to…

The Apps of March—SXSW Edition

Graham and I were having a bit of a dialogue over the weekend about what hot apps were going to come out of SXSW this year. He’s there on the ground, and I was hoping he’d unearthed an Indiana Jones-sized…

Down the Rabbit Hole of Social TV

A recent study from TiVo says that 76% of television viewers prefer to just watch what is on the TV rather than be distracted by the multitude of multitasking options at their fingertips. They probably also preferred steak and lobster…

The Era of Publishing

Just as it was with print, editorial design on the web is always an exciting playground for designers. And today pretty much everyone is in the editorial and publishing business. As Gary Vaynerchuck puts it, almost daily across his social…

What Travel Can Teach Us About Web Design in 2014

One category that is every designer’s dream playground is travel. Great photography, unlimited adventures, and huge user experience challenges. There are thousands upon thousands of travel websites and online experiences, and new ones are launching faster than old ones can…