Great Fridays

Great Fridays Ltd

Type	Private
Industry	Product & service design
Founded	Manchester (December 12, 2008)
Headquarters	Manchester, UK
Key people	Matthew Farrar, Co-Founder, European CEO Robert Noble, Co-Founder, American CEO
Website	www.greatfridays.com

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

Summary

Great Fridays is a strategic design consultancy that specialises in the design and implementation of strategies that help clients maximise all aspects of their business.^[2]

Great Fridays uses experience designers to connect creative ideas with commercial reality. Design is a central concept in the company^[3] and the agency is the driving force behind Design Authority, which runs events in cities like London, San Francisco, Milan and Shanghai - promoting the concept of design as a key plank of business.^[4]

Background

The company was founded in late 2008 in Manchester by Matthew Farrar^[5] and Robert Noble with investment from Peter Gabriel,^[6] through his Real World Holdings company.

With a head office in Manchester and a rising demand for their services in London, the company opened an office in the capital in 2011. In December 2012 the company announced the opening of two further offices in San Francisco and New York as part of its global expansion plans. ^[7]

Great Fridays was acquired by EPAM Systems in October 2014.^[8] The company now employs more than 60 full-time staff^[9] and has an in-house team of design experts across all disciplines including audio ^[10]

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.^[11]

Notable projects

Paypal - Developing and designing a shared central system that designers can use to access pattern guidance, images and assets.^[12]
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.^[13]
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. The result was achieved by enchasing the user experience and refreshing the design and visual language of the application.^[14]

References

↑ "Great Fridays steps London operations". The Business Desk. September 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
↑ "Great Fridays to expand with help from NatWest". TheCityUK. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
↑ "CEO, COO, CTO?... Why every company needs a CDO". Telegraph.
↑ "Design Authority website".
↑ Medium. "Cavemen didn't need Google Glass". Retrieved 28 May 2014.
↑ "Media Mix: New wins for Great Fridays; Mentors for Raw Design". The Business Desk. 28 September 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
↑ "Great Fridays steps London operations". thedrum.co.uk/. March 2011.
↑ "Great Fridays Limited".
↑ "Great Fridays' LinkedIn". Retrieved 10 May 2014.
↑ "Beats' and Apple's Core Is Cooler Than Cool, Probably...". 19 May 2014. Huffington Post. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
↑ from Great Fridays' Official Website.
↑ "PayPal – Pattern Library". Behance. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
↑ "Adobe | Collage prototype app for Android". Core77 Design Directory. Co. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
↑ "Thomson Reuters | BoardLink app for iPad". Core77 Design Directory. Retrieved 10 May 2014.

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