MySQL AI

Role

Lead Designer

Timeframe

Mar — Sep 2025

MySQL Studio is Oracle’s new integrated platform that unifies MySQL’s core capabilities with built-in AI to make data exploration faster, intuitive, and accessible to more users.

My role was to collaborate with product managers and engineers to enhance usability, streamline workflows, and broaden accessibility.

My impact on the project was broadening accessibility, improving onboarding, strengthening design consistency, and establishing a scalable foundation for future growth.



The Process

01

Discover

Identified usability issues across MySQL AI platform and synthesized PM, engineering, and user feedback.

02

Define

Facilitated design reviews and explored multiple layout patterns and interaction models by designing in Figma

03

Deliver

Refined hierarchy, flows, and component structure, delivering production-ready designs to handoff to front-end developers

The Process

01

Discover

Identified usability issues across MySQL AI platform and synthesized PM, engineering, and user feedback.

02

Define

Facilitated design reviews and explored multiple layout patterns and interaction models by designing in Figma

03

Deliver

Refined hierarchy, flows, and component structure, delivering production-ready designs to handoff to front-end developers

The Process

01

Discover

Identified usability issues across MySQL AI platform and synthesized PM, engineering, and user feedback.

02

Define

Facilitated design reviews and explored multiple layout patterns and interaction models by designing in Figma

03

Deliver

Refined hierarchy, flows, and component structure, delivering production-ready designs to handoff to front-end developers



To bring consistency across the product, I designed a reusable template to become the core layout pattern for multiple pages across the product that was aligned with Oracle's company-wide design philosophy Redwood.

To bring consistency across the product, I designed a reusable template to become the core layout pattern for multiple pages across the product that was aligned with Oracle's company-wide design philosophy Redwood.

To bring consistency across the product, I designed a reusable template to become the core layout pattern for multiple pages across the product that was aligned with Oracle's company-wide design philosophy Redwood.


A core challenge of designing MySQL Studio was ensuring that AI didn’t feel like a separate add-on, but was a seamless part of the user experience. Ask Oracle is an embedded pop-up that was designed to be integrated and invisible within the workflow.

A core challenge of designing MySQL Studio was ensuring that AI didn’t feel like a separate add-on, but was a seamless part of the user experience. Ask Oracle is an embedded pop-up that was designed to be integrated and invisible within the workflow.

A core challenge of designing MySQL Studio was ensuring that AI didn’t feel like a separate add-on, but was a seamless part of the user experience. Ask Oracle is an embedded pop-up that was designed to be integrated and invisible within the workflow.


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task completion for new users

100+

enterprise users

25%

faster design to dev cycles

↑50%

task completion for new users

100+

enterprise users

25%

faster design to dev cycles

↑50%

task completion for new users

100+

enterprise users

25%

faster design to dev cycles