Michael
Waite
I design and build dense interfaces for professionals who need to find the important thing fast. Trading terminals for Goldman Sachs in 2008. Service-mesh observability in 2019. Missile warning for the U.S. Space Force today.
New essay: “Do It Better” Doesn’t Make You a Designer →Selected Work
SMX
publicOperator prototypes for FORGE, the U.S. Space Force missile warning ground system, built with UXDS, the React component library and prototyping engine I made for the team. Also operator interfaces for two Golden Dome battle management proposals.
Aspen Mesh
publicObservability console for Kubernetes and Istio service meshes. Annotated wireframes through a hand-coded HTML prototype with empty states.
Cloudflare
publicDesigned the Workers dashboard, where developers watch requests, errors and CPU time, and mapped the information architecture of the whole product estate.
Rally Software
open sourceAgile Central, Rally’s tool for planning and tracking software work, and Mineral UI, the open-source React component library I started so every product at CA could build from the same parts.
Goldman Sachs
archiveREDI Plus, the desktop app traders use to send and manage orders, and a pair of FX trading tools for currency traders.
More Work
publicPitches for Betfair and PGA TOUR, and a tech pack builder that turns a fashion design into the build a factory needs.
Writing
All writing →I’ve always looked at code as a design tool. The prototypes I build end up in production.