mrfrisby.com

MRFRISBY


Stuart Frisby mrfrisby.com

I'm Stuart Frisby. This is a personal website, a place that is mine, made by hand for no better reason than the pleasure of making it.

Somewhere along the way the web stopped being a thing we made and became a thing we were sold. This is my small argument against that. Not a portfolio and not a brand; just the stuff I do when the stuff is its own reward, and proof to myself that the craft of designing and making stuff for the web is still worth practising for its own sake.

I built my first website twenty-five years ago, when the internet still felt like something we were making together. That is the version of the web I think we should be trying to create, and this is my part in that.

Stuart Frisby
  • 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
Latest
  • New favicon: black SF in the site’s Oswald on the site’s green, with a proper touch icon for iPhones.
  • Every page now advertises the notes RSS feed (/notes/feed.xml) so feed readers can find it.
  • Home: the hCard now carries a photo, a short bio, email, location, pronouns and a stable ID, so other sites (like the IndieWeb webring directory) can…
  • Published new note: How to Maximise Your Annual Leave in 2027
  • Annual leave note: the layout now works on phones, with the number on the title line, cards and copy at full width, and room beside each title for…
  • Vidoumo 1.6.0: each kanji on the dictionary card now lists its on and kun readings, with the one the word uses picked out; the stroke count is gone…
  • Notes: the Vidoumo note is now set like a Japanese newspaper. A green nameplate with the wordmark centred and its katakana reading hung beside it…
  • Vidoumo 1.5.0: the dictionary card now shows each kanji in the word, with its radical, meaning and stroke count, and opens with the reading in…
  • Home: the featured Vidoumo banner now shows the demo’s browser window, with its YouTube and Netflix tabs and a caption over a film still, in place of…
  • Projects: the Vidoumo image now shows the two-tab demo, with the Netflix controls, the caption and the popup.
  • Vidoumo: the demo on /vidoumo is now a browser window with two tabs, YouTube and Netflix. Switching tabs puts the same clip in YouTube’s controls or…
  • Guestbook and Library: the launch screens now scale up with the window, so the wordmark, text and start button fill a big screen instead of sitting…
  • Notes: Recall versus inference is now public, with the video of the talk at the top and the script beneath it. The page is dressed as the talk's own…
  • Dark mode: rebuilt as a near-black with only a trace of green, in place of the deep forest green. Borders and hairlines are quiet greys that hold the…
mrfrisby.com/changelog →