[runjake]

I used Palantir software at a previous job. After that, I'm not so sure I'd go to Palantir for UI advice.

They're cool, they're hip -- they've even got the obligatory XKCD comic in the post, but their products are awkward (albeit improving slowly).

Here's some screenshots straight from the horse's mouth:

http://blog.palantirtech.com/2008/07/04/palantir-screenshots...

And yeah, using it is about as clunky as it looks. For better or worst, the software is somewhat open-ended, so there were differences in how analysts visualized entities, which sometimes caused problems when you needed to get actionable intelligence out the door quickly. It's not really suitable for quick.