Belated ‘Hi’ from the new kid at Rummble

Hi! My name’s Ben, and I’m the new designer at Rummble.

High in the Bolivian deserts, Ben never saw the desperate addiction to 3G signal that lay in his future.

I really had every intention of writing a ‘Hello, my name is’ post on my very first day at Rummble. I’m not sure what happened to that idea, but it’s coming up to 3 months since I joined the team, and I realised I still haven’t gotten around to it.

Thing is, I’ve (we’ve) been really, really busy! There’s so much cool new stuff in the pipeline I almost don’t know where to begin. Within hours of first sitting down in our office, I was churning out icons for our iPhone app, mockups for nice new emails, layouts for the brand-new Rummble explorer site, not to mention getting my head around the finer points of actually using Rummble.

So, I suppose a bit of self-description is expected in a post like this. Well, I’m fairly newly arrived in the UK, having come the long way ’round from Australia via most of South America. Until I hit Rummble, I had successfully avoided working for almost exactly a year – it’s funny, when you start again after so long, everything magically becomes fun again. I’m still waiting for the novelty to wear off, but 3 months in, and everything’s still looking bright and shiny – fingers crossed!

I’m going to be concentrating pretty heavily on beating the Rummble UI into shape -with a focus on simplicity and speed – everything you want to do in Rummble, faster to get to, and easier to use. If you’re a new user, there’s a good chance you’re thinking ‘ok, now what?’ – don’t worry, we know you’re there, and we really want to help you!

Once the new plans are a little more settled, we’ll post some sneak previews for you to get excited about.

Until then, I think I have about 100 teeny little iPhone icons to draw – wish me luck!