Sympathy for Data is a tool used to structure difficult amount of machine data into valuable insights. It's a node-builder user interface that needed to cover a lot of features.

A challenge with Sympathy were to keep a lot of their original user experience while building a more beautiful user interface. Sympathy serve big companies & did not want to lose the experience & trust they already built.

A big part of Sympathy upgrade were to introduce landing pages. Pages that a user can look around & save their progress before creating a new file. This also needed to include things such as templates & tutorials

When creating a project in Sympathy, the user will get a blank canvas where they can add nodes that will process data in different ways. A user can add a node in many different ways.

They can use a left navigation, where nodes are placed in different categories. They can use shortcuts to get a node dropdown, but also use a universal search to find nodes, templates & more.

The Node builder is a complex, drag & drop, user interface where the user themself can decide exactly what elements they want to show. A node can also be a "group" of sort, where another workflow is being ran at this stage.

The data viewer is where the user open up a node to set it's specific preferences & details.

When a user have created their workflow it's time to test it. Using the top right Execute button a user can test their workflow all all its nodes. From left to right the software will run the data, giving real time updates of any errors that may occur. If a user gets any error the software will clearly show this, allowing the user to fix, reload & re-run the workflow.

A core functionality in Sympathy's UI is the ability to move the UI. This allows the user to create the workspace they want & remove the things they don't need.

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