MRFRISBY
Profile
I lead design organisations and build the conditions for great design work. Currently Senior Director of Design at Preply, a language learning platform used by millions. Previously Director of Design at Booking.com and Director of Brand & Experience Design at Deliveroo.
I also run Outpost, a strategic design consultancy, and publish Design Leadership Memos, a newsletter read by design leaders around the world. I am building COSTA - A context-driven personal chief of staff app, and morning.video, a meditative antidote to doomscrolling.
Work
- Preply Senior Director of Design
- Outpost Founder
- Deliveroo Director of Brand & Experience Design
- Booking.com Director of Design Principal Designer
- NV Interactive Designer
- 36 Degrees Design Founder
Writing
Changelog
- Projects: the mrfrisby.com slideshow now also shows the guestbook, the Nakasendo photo essay and the tools page.
- Projects: replaced the V Clarke Therapy screenshot, which was a crop of about half the page width, with a full-width capture like the others.
- Vidoumo: removed the folded "Install from the zip instead" steps from /vidoumo. The zip is still one link away in the intro, for anyone who wants it.
- Vidoumo 1.2.2: removed the unused end-of-video quiz code from the extension and added a licences file covering kuromoji, its IPADIC dictionary and…
- Vidoumo: added a privacy policy at /vidoumo/privacy, linked quietly from the page's "What leaves your browser" notes. It sets out what the extension…
- New: /vidoumo, the landing page and direct download for Vidoumo, a Chromium extension I built that adds furigana, English translation and word…
- Vidoumo: gave the page a big wordmark built the way the homepage hero is — fitted edge to edge with a small bleed — with ビドウモウ set vertically inside…
- Homepage: added Vidoumo as the top featured project, with COSTA second. Its banner has its own look rather than a recolour of COSTA's — the same mesh…
- Trimmed the AI paragraph in /now's "what I'm thinking about" down to the actual point — the long-term viability of a career in tech — without the…
- Turned the /now wallpaper up a bit — opacity from 0.6 to 0.8, so the sunset reads more clearly behind the windows.
- Switched the /now saved-video embed to youtube-nocookie.com — same player, but it skips YouTube's regular tracking cookies and cuts down on the…
- Music: the currently-playing track is now marked inside an album's tracklist, not just on the album itself — a pulsing dot and highlighted name on…
- Fixed a real data bug in the music library: two entirely unrelated real bands are both named Placebo (UK alt-rock, and a 70s Belgian jazz-fusion…
- Updated /now — what I'm working on and what I'm thinking about, both a bit stale.
Projects
- Covert Stories Political-nonfiction titles, bound and blank inside. Print-on-demand.
- Outpost My design consultancy — fractional leadership, reviews, and coaching.
- V Clarke Therapy A psychotherapy practice site — calm, and plainly written.
- Come to Art Club Mindful, therapeutic art classes — online and in South Devon.
Updates