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. I think that's where we need to take the web, and this is me taking part.

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
  • Notes: /notes is now a grid of tiles instead of a list. The newest note is a large tile and the rest sit in equal cells, divided by thin rules with a…
  • New note: The Aestheticisation of Commerce, on corporate PR and org mechanics becoming cultural output. It’s set as a typed letter on a clean sheet…
  • Home: a new intro in the Profile section, in place of the old job-title paragraphs.
  • Vidoumo 1.3.0: the JLPT level estimate now counts grammar as well as words, kanji and speed, reads easy videos as easy, and says “unrated” when a…
  • New: /vidoumo/levels, how the Vidoumo level estimate works: the four signals, where every number comes from, and how far to trust it.
  • Vidoumo: the level section on /vidoumo now shows its two example videos side by side, with the new Grammar row, and the demo player’s pill reads…
  • 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…
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