Facebook just snapped up the partners behind a company that was founded before the social network even existed.
Three partners from Teehan+Lax, a 12-year-old digital design company based in Toronto, announced in a blog post on Friday that they would be joining Facebook's design team in San Francisco. The firm has worked on designs for Medium, Prismatic and helped with the redesign of Facebook's Atlas project.
"The challenges that we will have at Facebook are challenges that interest us," partners Geoff Teehan, Jon Lax and David Gillis wrote in the announcement. "They are primarily about making things that over a billion people will use … all over the world. The opportunity to work on interesting and meaningful problems at such scale is very compelling."
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the announcement in a statement to Mashable: “Teehan+Lax designs best in class experiences for both mobile and web. We’re excited to welcome key members of the Teehan+Lax team to Facebook.”
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Early last year, another one of the design firm's partners decided to leave to pursue a project, prompting the remaining partners to rethink the future of Teehan+Lax, according to their lengthy blog post. They met with various companies, but ultimately decided to go with Facebook after reps from the social network explained their plans for 2015, and how the partners could help.