Great Fridays

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

Great Fridays Ltd
Private
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

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]

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. "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. 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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