Great Fridays

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Great Fridays Ltd
TypePrivate
IndustryProduct & service design
FoundedManchester (December 12, 2008) October 31, 2014 - acquired by EPAM Systems
Headquarters
Manchester
,
UK
Key people
Matthew Farrar, Co-Founder, European CEO
Robert Noble, Co-Founder, American CEO
Website[2]

Great Fridays was a Manchester-based product and service design company founded in 2008 by Matthew Farrar and Robert Noble.[1]

In October 2014, the company was acquired by EPAM Systems, a product development and software engineering company.[2]

Background[]

Great Fridays was founded in late 2008 in Manchester by Matthew Farrar[3] and Robert Noble with investment from Peter Gabriel,[4] through his Real World Holdings company.

The company opened a second office in London in 2011. In December 2012, the company announced the opening of two further offices in San Francisco and New York City . [5]

Great Fridays was acquired by Epam Systems in October 2014.[2] The company now employs more than 60 full-time staff.[6][7]

In January 2012, the company acquired product design company Dekode.

The company has worked for Adobe, Imagination Technologies, Gucci, Sonos, Citrix, Microsoft, Experian, Thomson Reuters, Vodafone, Pearson, Williams Lea, among others.[8][failed verification]

Projects[]

  • PayPal - Developing and designing a shared central system that designers can use to access pattern guidance, images and assets.[9]
  • Adobe - Creating a business case and prototype app in Adobe Air run-time system for Android tablets. It was later released as Adobe Collage on iOS and Android.[10]
  • Thomson Reuters - Improving the existing Boardlink app which helps the companies board members to access, review and annotate sensitive business information at board level within the company.[11]

References[]

  1. ^ "Great Fridays steps London operations". The Business Desk. September 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  2. ^ a b "EPAM Acquires Great Fridays, Expands Product and Service Design Capabilities" (Press release). Epam Systems.
  3. ^ Medium. "Cavemen didn't need Google Glass". Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Media Mix: New wins for Great Fridays; Mentors for Raw Design". The Business Desk. 28 September 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  5. ^ "Great Fridays steps London operations". thedrum.co.uk/. March 2011.
  6. ^ "Great Fridays' LinkedIn". Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  7. ^ "Beats' and Apple's Core Is Cooler Than Cool, Probably..." 19 May 2014. Huffington Post. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  8. ^ [1] from Great Fridays' Official Website.
  9. ^ "PayPal – Pattern Library". Behance. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  10. ^ "Adobe | Collage prototype app for Android". Core77 Design Directory. Co. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  11. ^ "Thomson Reuters | BoardLink app for iPad". Core77 Design Directory. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2014.

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