I had the opportunity to work on many different projects and verticals while at Palantir, some of which I can’t talk about, so I apologize in advance. In addition to the design work below, I also had a chance to manage a portion of the design team (a first for me) and be deeply involved in the hiring of designers and the design of the interview process.
A web-based application for conducting network analysis, geospatial analysis, and document reading that attempts to unify the universe of Palantir products. Started as a design initiated project that would later become a full-fledged engineering project critical to the business.
Some of what you see below was created or influenced by folks I directly managed on this project, specifically Antoine Llorca, Greg Martin, and Eric Grossman.
This is an example of an early iteration of the project view and all the contents of a project, specifically in a grid or icon-centric view.
I initiated this project as an attempt to solve some of the challenges I saw in a project I was managing. One of those problems was the fact that the workspace we were designing needed to accommodate many different types of applications as well as current and future applications. We also needed to do this in a way that clearly communicated the relationship between the workspace and its applications, while also providing flexibility for the wide variety of users and verticals.
Another early example of the same project view, but with a table view that may be more suitable for different types of objects and users.
Since I initiated this project, my role spanned many different activities. I was a researcher, interaction designer, visual designer, prototyper, and manager.
My process on this project started with identifying the problem, developing my opinion about the problem, a lot of whiteboarding and sketching with fellow colleagues, developing a prototype, testing, and of course, iterating.
This example illustrates how the workspace is always accessible when an application is open, such as a network graph application, and is visually and conceptually the foundational layer of the product.
Similar to the previous example, but this is showing the reading application open.
An example of a drag and drop interaction within the workspace.
A later iteration of the workspace user interface, in this case the projects view.
A later iteration of the object / file view of the workspace.
A later iteration of the object / file view of the workspace while an object is currently opened.
Here are a few small visual examples of the many things that I touched while working at Palantir. Again, since we love to collaborate at Palantir, many of these were influenced by my excellent colleagues.
Code Editor — An interface for a web-based code editor for our Engineers. My role was user research, interaction design, and visual design.
Case Management — An interface for Local Law Enforcement to manage and collaborate on their cases. My role was user research, interaction design, visual design, and some front-end development.
Mobile Sales Analytic Tool — A concept for the initial store screen that’s part of a mobile sales analytics tool. Check out the animated version on Dribbble.
Widget Inspector — Example popover for changing settings for a widget in our dashboard creation tool.