Overview

Rocket Communications is an enterprise UX design firm based in San Francisco that helps large organizations, government agencies, and tech startups improve the usability and efficiency of complex, mission-critical software. The company delivers specialized UX design and strategy services, including designing new apps, modernizing legacy systems, and building comprehensive UX design systems. It operates on a project basis as a service business and has worked with clients like Oracle, HP, Autodesk, and Thermo Fisher Scientific. A key achievement is developing and maintaining AstroUXDS, the Astro User Experience Design System created for the US Space Force’s Space Systems Command. AstroUXDS is an open-source, platform-agnostic design system with UX guidelines, a component library, UI kits, and HTML/CSS frameworks to standardize space-ground interfaces, reduce operator training time, and speed up development for satellite operations and command-and-control apps.