Palantir is one of the most powerful products in existence today.

It provides critical government and enterprise infrastructure from the factory floors to the front lines. You can literally build your own Airbnb on top of their development platform.

But with great power comes lots of complexity… So in this week’s episode, Design Lead Aashman Goghari gives us a behind-the-scenes of what it’s like designing products at Palantir.

• Becoming better at “problem decomposition”
• Two patterns for handling complex interfaces
• How to think through systems like a developer
• How data models can impact your design process
• Designing new user experiences for “Ferrari products”
• How to collaborate more effectively with backend engineers
• Finding the balance between edge cases and the golden path
• a lot more

• Aashman mentions the Concepts app for sketching on iPad
• Palantir is currently hiring designers
• You can follow Aashman on Twitter