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

6 Oct 2026Latest

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…

19 Sept 2026

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…

18 Sept 2026

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.

17 Sept 2026

Homepage: fixed a structural hover/click bug in the Projects grid — a block-level link only sized to its own content, so on rows where one column's…
Notes: published "A house, recorded," introducing the private house-history project — a full-width hero masthead, a few real numbers on the scale of…
Extracted the homepage's featured-project banner (the full-bleed branded card, including its password-gated variant) into a shared component, and…

15 Sept 2026

Homepage: added Come to Art Club (cometoartclub.com) to the Projects section, and turned the non-featured projects into a 2×2 grid instead of a…
Homepage: Projects can now feature more than one banner at once — added a second, password-gated entry (an OS-map-styled card with a password field…
Added a small Netlify Edge Function that password-gates a page ahead of the static file itself, so a direct hit on the URL with no referrer still…

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