Context
Gotham is Palantir's premiere data integration and analytics platform, specifically tailored for mission-critical defense and intelligence applications like counterterrorism, criminal investigations, and operational planning. Created over 20 years ago after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the product has been used by governments around the world, including U.S. Intelligence Community, USSOCOM (Special Operations Command), Interpol, and more.
Gotham excels at providing an environment where users can visualize data, uncover patterns, and collaborate effectively while maintaining strict access controls and data integrity. It is a tool that transforms raw structured and unstructured data into actionable intelligence, empowering users to address complex problems in real time.
Over time, it has evolved to offer modern battlespace solutions, offering a data-centric, secure, and interoperable platform for targeteers to responsibly collaborate across the target lifecycle in a battlespace. As the only software company to be awarded prime contractor status by the DOD, Gotham is exploring ground-breaking interfaces to help warfighters make better decisions in combat zones.
Impact
As the design lead of the GeoUX group, I was responsible for both the product and people leadership of a team of 6 designers. I owned and evangelized the design vision to modernize legacy products while exploring new experimental products that could push the frontier of Gotham's capabilities. Over two years, I worked on a variety of teams in multiple stages of the product lifecycle:
- Successfully redesigning and migrating off a 10+ year old legacy front-end data import tool to be a seamless, modern UX
- Guided strategic initiatives for Gaia, a map-based decision making tool currently with the largest product footprint within the org, to modernize and align with the company's push towards its LLM-powered AI Platform (AIP)
- Exploratory prototypes for a ground control system, which explores cutting edge unmanned aerial vehicles, mixed reality, and software at the edge, and led to a partnership with Shield AI's autonomous swarms
- Future-looking battle simulation and modeling tools to advance the future of operations planning
- Extreme iteration on a novel Targeting and Fires tool using the latest in 3D mapping technologies, developed alongside users in the field (shown below)