Kubernetes desktop management tool

The finished tool has one navigation column, and it shrinks to a strip of icons whenever the cluster needs the room. Kubernetes runs software across dozens of machines, a cluster changes continuously, and a command line answers one question at a time, so this tool puts a whole running cluster on one desktop screen. I was the sole designer, for two months, and I benchmarked the work against Lens and Octant first. The difficulty in both wasn’t any single screen, it was how much room the interface held permanently, so I set one test for every element: what does it cost the cluster in space, and what does the cluster get back? The saved-cluster list moved into a catalogue, the resource tree got a collapsed state, and the terminal left the window entirely, because reading logs as they arrive wants width more than anything else in the product. Delivered as a Figma file with a prototype and documentation, drawn from shadcn/ui.