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Stuart Frisby
@stuartfrisby
Founder of @unisnapp, building the future of #design tooling. Based in Devon, working in London, pining for Tokyo. Also at https://t.co/57iSmjXJTJ
Sep 22, 2021 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
I’ve been running design organisations for almost eight years now. First as the senior-most IC in a design immature company where I was trying to establish a design practise, then as it’s head of design, and most recently in that same role in a more design mature company. Here are some things I believe based on that experience:
Sep 21, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I know I bang on a lot about Facebook, but I think it’s important that people in our industry speak candidly about what that particularly company is culpable for, and why we should stop giving it our attention and the cash they harvest from it. It’s entirely possible to get out of the Facebook ecosystem without becoming a social recluse, here are some alternative services you should try:
Sep 10, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I was saying mere days ago that the fact that there are no comparable examples of Facebook in Europe should be seen as a mark of success, not failure. Perhaps whomever it is that reads my tweets at Downing Street was confused. This is absolutely *not* what we should be aiming for.
Aug 28, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The combined impact of these two factors - longer working hours, and more productivity per-hour - is an almost 20% increase in worker productivity over office working. So any rational business will conclude this is on the whole, very positive. Yes, remote working in not a panacea and not all workers or all businesses are the same - but the rising wave of anti-remote working which is being led by the government is not out of concern for those without adequate space to work from home, or for the loss of camaraderie in...
Aug 15, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“…in 96% of cases grades were the same as submitted by teachers or were just one grade different”.

So, in all but 4% of cases, grades were the same, or different. Thanks Michael. So glad you’re using the official government website for publishing your drivel.

Be better. “pupils from lower socio economic backgrounds are slightly more likely to have a difference between the grade proposed by their teachers their final grades at C and above”

What you’ve done, is that you’ve debunked the criticism by explicitly confirming that it is correct.
Aug 4, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Terrible news for all of the great folks working at @bookingdesign. If I can help anyone there with finding new opportunities, advice or connections - my DMs are open. One way or another, an event like this was inevitable at Booking. When the going was good, the attitude in product and engineering in particular was to just keep growing, hire as quickly as possible, swell the ranks as much as possible.
Jul 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The homescreen improvements to iOS 14 are excellent, I can’t wait to see what third party app developers do with widgets. It’s like OSX Tiger all over again. Image My favourite of the stock widgets is Siri suggestions, that’s the grid of app icons across the top. Whilst it looks like a static set of apps, it changes based on previous behaviour. Image
Jun 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Would you like to hear my exceptionally mundane Steven Bergwijn fact?

When we moved from Amsterdam to London, our movers showed up with a truck full of our stuff, and Steven Bergwijn’s massage table which they were dropping off after they’d finished at our place.

You’re welcome This is perhaps the best my mundance footballer fact, replacing the time I gave toilet directions to Frank Sinclair whilst standing beneath a sign with directions to the nearby toilets.
Jun 15, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Watching this:

I have some feelings. I have enormous respect for these folks and the way they work, but like Basecamp I am not sure this is for me. I find it visually complex, and stylistically brash. I’m also a bit allergic to the folksy nomenclature, things like ‘Imbox’ and ‘The Feed’ make my eyes twitch a little bit. Maybe this is an American-English thing. Dunno. 🤨
May 30, 2020 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Amsterdam pals: my house is for sale. It’s the most beautiful house you’ll ever live in - surrounded by water and nature on a great street. I’ll share the listing and some photos below.

funda.nl/koop/amsterdam… From the front door Image
May 21, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
So Zuckerberg wants to “spread economy opportunity” but also to pay at local market rate - in effect doubling down on the existing lack of distributed economic opportunity.

Cool. If the work can be done remotely, and the value of the work is consistent regardless of where it gets done - just pay the same. That’s how you spread economic opportunity, and encourage folks out of SF and it’s insane property market. Or, just call it what it is - reducing costs.
May 9, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I did my first ‘commute’ in London last week on mostly empty roads. The government promise of spending some money on cycling infrastructure is cool. It’s nowhere near enough to make any kind of systemic improvement, and my limited experience cycling in England suggests that: 1. Cycling infrastructure doesn’t make for safe cycling. You also need drivers who understand how to share roads. That doesn’t exist in England. The roads in Amsterdam could have zero cycling infrastructure and still be safer for cyclists than U.K. roads for this reason.
Mar 27, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Today’s quarantine tea coaster - David Beckham getting sent off at France 98. Image Robin van Persie’s flying header again Spain at the 2014 World Cup.

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Mar 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Things I have noticed since moving to England:

1. There is betting advertising everywhere. I hadn’t realised how little of that I ever saw in the Netherlands. It’s gross and I wish platforms like twitter would let me opt out of seeing it. 2. All of my frames of reference and visual clues for finding stuff in supermarkets are broken. I walked around a shop three times last weekend looking for beans.
Feb 20, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I am a firm believer in this model - a separation of concerns between the aggregate impact of thd discipline vs that of the day-to-day work of individual ICs within it provides for a much more rounded environment in shouch designers benefit from support in both axes Being a good people manager is a completely different job to being good at guiding a discipline, representing it, growing its impact, and developing its approach.
Feb 20, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is happening Image Also, no we don’t have so much stuff that it requires a truck and a separate container. YOU have so much stuff that it requires a truck and a separate container. Shut up.
Feb 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
a16z.com/2020/02/18/mar…

This is silly. Firstly, it presents itself as a worldwide top 100, and then in the small print says the ranking is derived from US Credit card transactions.

It also only includes consumer spending, and therefore for a category like travel gives at best a partial view, at worst a misleading one. The top 100 is drawn from a hand-selected list of 4500 merchants, and so it's highly likely some big names aren't included in that list.
Jan 3, 2020 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
I'm nowhere near disciplined enough to have any kind of year in review shenanigans to share, but I did take some photos I liked in the last year - here are a few of my favourites [1/6] This was taken in the park near our house on one of my daily morning walks with a sleeping baby, this was early July so at least it was daylight when we were out walking at this point. February was much less fun.

photos.mrfrisby.com/morning-meadow… Image
Jan 3, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
[1] Please read this: dominiccummings.com/2020/01/02/two…

And then lets all in turns laugh and mutter expletives at the stupidity of this whole endeavour. [2] The academic performativeness of the whole thing. Citing papers and explicitly asking for candidates from 'The world's best universities' like that is a marker of anything beyond which university a person went to.
Dec 16, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
On this day in 2016 Victoria and I were wandering around exploring Waiheke Island on the second leg of our US/NZ/JP holiday. Before flying down to Whakatane to spend Christmas with my family, we had a wedding anniversary weekend on the island. This shot was taken at Onetangi. Image Every year when the European winter sets in I wish I was in New Zealand with the sunshine and my folks. Maybe next year.
Nov 16, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Ellis and I out for a walk - captured here in the middle of a pretty robust debate on the merits of renationalisation. Image We eventually settled on the conclusion that whilst public ownership of infrastructure is probably less efficient on a capital-basis than private ownership, we’d rather something less efficient which we own than something more efficient that siphons money out of the public purse