. cyber duck type private industry digital media founded 2005 founder danny bluestone headquarters elstree hertfordshire uk area served worldwide key people danny bluestone matt gibson sylvain reiter owner danny bluestone number of employees 35 website www.cyber duck.co.uk cyber duck is a full service digital agency based in elstree united kingdom specialising in providing user experience ux design mobile web productions and software as a service saas solutions to companies ranging from ftse 100 companies to startups . the company was founded in 2005 and employs 35 staff across offices in elstree hertfordshire and farringdon london . history edit 2005 cyber duck was established by danny bluestone in 2005 in his flat in mill hill . after a few months cyber duck moved into its first office in churchill house borehamwood . within the first year cyber duck worked with ogilvy london creative a right result wisteria and adaptive affinity . 1 2006 in 2006 sylvain reiter joined cyber duck now the companies technical director . in this year cyber duck worked with sim2000 cavendish brooke eco drip life irrigation sharpes solicitors and sparks direct . 2007 in 2007 the company won awards at the europrix multimedia awards 2 british interactive media association 3 webawards 4 and the interactive media awards . 5 6 by 2008 they had gone on to produce websites for jewson 7 and bam construct 8 part of royal bam group and clients from the entertainment industry had also begun to use their services such as the gilev showband incubator band of the popular musician alexandra burke . matt gibson joined the company now cyber duck s production director . 2008 in 2008 cyber duck moved offices to devonshire house in borehamwood . the company won 7 awards in this year . 9 rajkumar remanan joined the team now cyber duck s senior visual designer . this year cyber duck started working with optima strong vend paper round intel neville lumb reset finance and permits2work . 2009 in 2009 the agency won 11 awards . the ducks had developed a relationship with the mentor of the bbc s show million dollar traders anton kreil in order to produce his personal website 10 and several other web based projects such as hablib.com . 11 following on from this they developed a project for the virtual gifting service boonspace . 12 2010 in 2010 cyber duck were commissioned to develop a website for the european commission in the u.k. 13 the site went live in november 2010 14 and was part of a new move from the european union to make u.k citizens aware of the benefits of being an eu member state thanks to wide euroscepticism in the united kingdom . the work was featured on bbc news 15 telegraph.co.uk 16 and new media age . 17 by this point cyber duck began working on high profile software as a service projects and took on another in the form of officecavalry.com . 18 the site was built as a portal for freelancers to find work from users with projects . cyber duck also began work with ashworth rosslyn analytics symble redeye and wisteria formations . cyber duck also released the duckpad an ipad web app built as a way to provide an enhanced user experience for the growing ipad market . danny bluestone was a guest speaker at c21 s ipad entertainment summit at bafta where he presented the duckpad . 19 2011 in january 2011 the company announced that they would be working alongside arsenal f.c on a project for arsenal double club a project started up by arsenal in the community . in february cyber duck was invited to sxsw in austin texas on the ukti digital mission 20 a yearly event designed to provide networking opportunities for u.k organisations in the digital sector . in august 2011 the company moved to a self contained premises in elstree hertfordshire . at the same time the company announced a new awards ceremony known as the duckies to be held in september . this event also marked the 6th anniversary of the company s formation . 21 after being asked to produce an interactive comic for channel 5 uk television show the gadget show cyber duck were featured in an episode which was first aired on 23 september 2011 . 22 in december 2011 cyber duck founded the digital pond a free networking group for business executives from across london . the digital pond was devised for attendees to learn discuss and share innovations in the digital sector . the topics have included things like web design skills and practices web development and best practice for digital marketing strategies . as of august 2013 the group consisted of 739 members . 23 cyber duck began working with housepals retireeasy arsenal double club the far horizon canadean the knowledge online kftv pizza gogo fresh graduates fitbug symble2 cash in your gadgets london cardiovascular clinic maiden iis paul simon and titanium fire . the agency picked up 13 awards that year . 2012 in 2012 cyber duck was listed in the top 20 digital agencies in the south east at the wirehive100 awards . cyber duck also received the iso 9241 210 for adopting the international standards of providing human centred design on projects . 24 cyber duck were also listed as a deloitte technology fast 500 company in emea highlighting the agency s growth over the previous 5 years . danny bluestone spoke at ucd2012 about how cyber duck uses agile and lean frameworks alongside ucd to produce award winning applications and websites . 25 he was also featured in ux magazine and on design week . cyber duck also got involved with the young rewired state for the first time hosting children and teenagers from hertfordshire and north london . cyber duck worked on projects with ritesim dlc retireeasy liberty wealth management eurostar essex governor services aston martin ashworth sustainable gs1uk maxinutrition glaxosmithkline and gapyear flight centre . 2013 danny was featured in the bima british interactive media association hot 100 a list which recognises the 100 most influential personalities in digital in the uk . 26 cyber duck completed the build of their new responsive website which was featured in smashing magazine . 27 cyber duck continued to win awards they notably won a wirehive award for their symble broker crm product for best use of technology . at the same awards cyber duck were listed as the 18th top digital agency in the south east . 28 matt gibson featured on the bbc watchdog tv series where he helped the program research websites and their checkout processes . matt also featured on the front cover of web designer magazine presented a workshop at ux london with danny and spoke at meetups and conferences . the team took part in several hackathons winning the spring hackathon which was hosted at google campus in london . cyber duck achieved its iso 9001 accreditation for its use of quality management systems . cyber duck began work on ; symble 3 need a property european commission ismash anyvan anydrop digital shadows import house and eurofighter typhoon . accolades edit in the early years cyber duck won accolades for working on the greenworks energy website on behalf of jewson . 29 part of the saint gobain group . the company also won multiple interactive media awards 30 horizon interactive awards . when the company moved its office in borehamwood it featured in the local press for achieving growth during the 2000s recession . 31 on 1 june 2007 the company received an honorary invitation to lecture at the landsdown centre and was featured in the middlesex university s centre s media . in 2010 the company claimed 3 davey web awards 32 as well as a best use of a website award at the construction marketing awards for oag . 33 the company won a webby selection as an official honoree in 2011 for their work on officecavalry.com 34 in 2011 the team was accredited with 14 industry awards including an interactive media award for the best in class for travel tourism for the far horizons website . 35 in 2012 cyber duck claimed 13 accreditations and were listed on the deloitte technology fast 500 company in europe the middle east and africa which lists the fastest growing tech companies in the region . 36 references edit about cyber duck cyber duck win europrix award for interactive comic cyber duck win b.i.m.a award for interactive comic cyber duck win webaward for greenstone site cyber duck win ima for quirky periscopix website cyber duck win ima for science website buildingtalk greenworks scoops web award in media competition clickz cyber duck constructs a building in 78 seconds cyber duck awards antonkreil.com & cyber duck ltd win outstanding achievement award property trading goes social as bbc star launches web 2.0 platform boonspace send money as a gift eu begins web push to promote services to uk citizens european commission launches website for britons bbc news 23 november 2010 bbc news european commission launches website for britons 23 november 2010 banks martin 24 november 2010 telegraph.co.uk eu launches website to dispel urban myths the daily telegraph london nma european commission takes public information online user friendly freelancer marketplace created by cyber duck launches c21 ipad entertainment summit speaker biographies ukti mission to sxsw interactive 2011 the companies announced a birthday a new office and the duckies awards the gadget show series 16 episode 6 the digital pond human centred design iso 9241 210 for cyber duck welcomes danny s talk about agile ux ucd2012 welcomes danny s talk about agile ux bima hot 100 2013 adapting to a responsive design case study wirehive 100 league table 2013 greenworks solar panels website given mark of distinction greenworks energy interactive media awards awards gallery company finds its wings amid economic dowturn the borehamwood & elstree times 23 march 2009 cyber duck strike a hat trick at the international davey awards 2010 oag best use of a website pdf 15th annual webby awards official honoree selections employment cyber duck win interactive media awards for 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