Rocket Communications

Rocket Communications is an enterprise user experience (UX) design company offering user experience design for new and legacy applications, UX strategic consulting, and related UX solutions. The company aims to develop easy-to-use, highly functional, and aesthetically sophisticated user experience design for complex systems. Rocket Communications was founded in 1992 by CEO Michal-Anne Rogodino and is headquartered in San Francisco.

The company partners with private and public corporations, including large commercial customers and organizations within the space domain, developing UX systems for space ground systems applications and space applications. The enterprise customers have included Catbird Networks, Harris, Apple, Intel, SAP, HP, Bruker, Oracle, ShoreTel, Jeppesen, FireEye, Microsoft, Intuit, Cisco, Thomson Reuters, and Fujitsu.

Rocket Communications is a developer of user experience (UX) design and systems, including professional UX for DoD applications and critical missions that allow users to quickly and effectively accomplish a task. These solutions include developing UX for new and legacy applications, both to help launch a new application and to continue the ongoing development of legacy applications. Similarly, Rocket Communication uses what it calls a proprietary user-centric discovery process to design UX systems. The company also offers UX strategic consulting solutions to help organizations develop custom solutions for digital interactions for software systems.

Rocket Communications designs user experiences for essential and complex systems for enterprise users and to help those systems with their competitive advantage. This includes deploying design operations for the DevOps strategies that have been adopted by software development teams. DesignOps is developed to support designing systems in an iterative way, including a pre-approved set of design tools, application design, and code templates.

Rocket Communications develops and designs user experience systems for the United States Department of Defense and space systems. This includes developing systems for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), with updates including a focus on satellite ground systems that can be transformed into "enterprise architectures," which has led to the development of Rocket Communications Astro Space Use Experience Design System.

Astro is a free and open-source UX design system developed by Rocket Communications and developed for use in creating modern web-based space applications. Astro is supported and provided by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), and Rocket Communications supports the software platform with updates and enhancements to create a consistent and professional UX for space applications.