Adriana Peña
Adriana Peña

Principal Product Designer

Powerful for experts.Possible for everyone.

8+ years designing complex workflows for enterprise platforms. The last three have been about AI — figuring out how to orchestrate it around what people are actually trying to do, rather than making people adapt to it. I prototype in code.

How I work

I'm ever-curious

Why do people behave the way they do? Why are systems built the way they are? I treat every project as something to learn from — and every case study on this site opens with the question I couldn't let go of, because that's genuinely where it started.

I'm drawn to complex, ambitious projects

I love distilling processes that seem daunting until they're simple — simple enough that power users can fly, and everyone else can finally succeed too. That's the work I've always gravitated toward.

I adapt what's emerging, deliberately

I don't claim to invent patterns from nothing. I watch what's being shaped in the world — in AI, in tooling, in craft — and adapt it with intention to the specific problem in front of me. Synthesis over novelty, every time.

I build to think

A static mock describes an idea; working code argues for it. This site is the proof — designed and built by hand, doodles and all. Prototyping in code is how I move faster than a spec ever could.

Selected Work

01 — 04

Experience

I'm a Principal Product Designer at Oracle. Since early 2026, I've been designing the AI Data Platform Workbench — a platform built for data engineers, data scientists, and AI developers working at the infrastructure layer of enterprise AI. Before that, I spent 5+ years on Oracle Analytics Cloud, making complex BI tools feel intuitive for analysts and business leaders.

The thread through the last few years is AI — not bolting features onto existing surfaces, but rethinking how the interaction model itself should change when the system can reason, route, and act.

Principal UX Designer

Oracle — AI Data Platform Workbench

Data engineers, data scientists, AI developers

2026 — Present

Principal UX Designer

Oracle Analytics Cloud

AI orchestration, design strategy

2025 — 2026

Senior UX Designer

Oracle Analytics Cloud

BI platform, design systems

2022 — 2025

UX Designer

Oracle Central Design

Internal product studio

2020 — 2022

UX Designer

Aleate

Startups & enterprise software

2018 — 2020

One more thing

If the way I work resonates, I'd love to hear from you.

Tell me what you're building, ask about a project — or just say hola.

Expertise

AI OrchestrationAgentic Workflow DesignInteraction DesignDesign SystemsUser ResearchData VisualizationCross-functional LeadershipFigmaReact / Next.jsRapid Prototyping in Code