Big Data is a hot topic but is also notoriously famous for being hard to use. This talk follows the 5-year chronology of Hue, an open source Web UI designed to make Apache Hadoop easier to use. It shares the mutations, UX tweaks that mattered, Web gotchas and lessons learned along the way. The major new innovations like the dynamic Search Dashboard and Notebook interfaces are presented along with backend/frontend implementation techniques that allowed a team of 3 to be extremely productive.

1. MAKING THE BIG
DATA UX
BIG
http://gethue.com

2. HISTORY
HUE 1
Desktop-like in a browser,
did its job but pretty slow,
memory leaks and not very
IE friendly but definitely
advanced for its time (2009-
2010).

3. HISTORY
HUE 2
The first flat structure port,
with Twitter Bootstrap all
over the place.

4. HISTORY
HUE 2
The first flat structure port,
with Twitter Bootstrap all
over the place.

5. HISTORY
HUE 2.5
New apps, improved the UX
adding new nice
functionalities like
autocomplete and drag &
drop.

6. HISTORY
HUE 3 ALPHA
Proposed design, didn’t
make it.

7. HISTORY
HUE 3
Dynamic Search
dashboards, Notebooks,
moving the logic to the
frontend, ko js, d3
visualization

8. HISTORY
HUE 4
Even bigger UX!
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