Eric Wienke

Product Design Leader & Enterprise UXpert

I design and ship consequential software—from 0→1 products at seed-stage startups to shared platforms for enterprise product suites at Oracle and Cisco.I work hands-on across product definition, interaction design, prototyping, and production, and I’ve led teams building the systems that help that work scale.

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Sawmills telemetry control experience shown on desktop alongside a mobile insight digestDesigning an Observability Platform from 0→1Dark AppDynamics interface with a luminous globe visualizing monitored systems and incidentsRaising the visual bar for AppDynamicsAI-Agent Command Center for Observability PlatformAI-Agent Command Center for Observability PlatformDash Studio Dashboard EditorDash Studio Dashboard Editor
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How I AI

Explore

Claude Design · Google Stitch · Paper · Figma

Explore broadly. Refine deliberately.

I use Claude Design, Google Stitch, and Paper to explore design directions quickly. I evaluate what’s useful, what needs rethinking, and when another AI iteration is unlikely to help. I know when to bring a design back into Figma to obsess over the details and when to keep iterating in code. User needs, product goals, and constraints guide those decisions.

Google Stitch canvas showing light editorial, dark narrative, and technical dashboard design directions.
Visual directions explored in Google Stitch.
Build

Claude Code

Make it work.

I build coded prototypes and make direct frontend contributions—from bug fixes and UI enhancements to new design system components. Working in code lets me test behavior and carry design intent into implementation.

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Agent Command Center · working prototype

A visual walkthrough of the Mills Command Center, showing agent activity, issues requiring attention, and investigations. The linked case study explains the workflow and design decisions.

Understand

ChatGPT · Claude

Connect the dots.

I use ChatGPT and Claude to work through the context behind a design problem: how a technology works, how other products approach it, and which market trends might matter. I can follow a question deeper or work through an unfamiliar concept until I can reason about the tradeoffs myself. That understanding helps me have more useful conversations with engineers and product partners. I check consequential claims against original sources.

Technology, product interfaces, and market signals connect around a central design problem, with selected relationships highlighted in pink.
Connecting context to design decisions.
Experiment

Ongoing tool evaluation · pen.dev

Keep testing what’s possible.

I regularly evaluate new tools and features. My holy grail: canvas and code fully in sync, with edits reflected on both sides. I like how close pen.dev gets, though its design features are still too basic for my day-to-day needs. I keep reassessing as the tools evolve.

A visual canvas and code editor with a matching property highlighted, connected by arrows in both directions.
The goal: a continuous loop between canvas and code.

Professional

Areas of Expertise

  • 0-to-1 Product Development
  • Complex Systems Simplification
  • Design Systems in Production
  • Gen AI/Agentic UX Frameworks
  • Agile & Lean Design Methodologies
  • Platform UX Architecture
  • Enterprise SaaS & B2B Platforms
  • Data Visualizations & Dashboards
  • Rapid Prototyping & Design-to-Code
  • User Research | Data Analysis
  • Developer Experience
  • Observability & Data Platforms
  • Human-AI Interaction & Trust
  • Design Leadership & Org Scaling
  • Accessibility & Usability Testing

Experience

SINCE 07/24

Sawmills.aiFounding Designer

Leading end-to-end product design as the founding designer at Sawmills, creating the platform’s UX, design system, and workflows for managing AI-driven observability pipelines.

08/23 - 07/24

CiscoProduct Design Leader, Common Experiences

Led a cross-functional team of designers, engineers, and strategists to unify the user experience across internal and external applications that run on the Cisco Observability Platform.

11/21 - 08/23

Cisco AppDynamicsDirector of Product Design

Led a large and multidisciplinary global design organization in the full-stack observability space. Developed product design strategies across platforms.

04/19 - 11/21

Cisco AppDynamicsDirector of Design Technology

Led a team of design technologists, designers, and prototypers to achieve Cisco’s key objectives. Spearheaded a new design system and improved product design efficiency by 10x with new and established tools, systems, and processes.

01/17 - 08/19

Cisco AppDynamicsPrincipal Product Designer

Orchestrated the design functions for platform-wide flows and components, synchronizing design initiatives with business goals, market trends, and consumer insights.

2006-2016

OraclePrincipal Product Designer

Built enterprise-wide UX standards and patterns for Oracle’s complete cloud suite of over 100 SaaS applications, reducing development costs and increasing consistency. Developed AI-infused design frameworks that significantly improved customer interaction and engagement for enterprise software solutions.

2005-2006

OracleUsability Engineer

Improved usability of Oracle applications with qualitative and quantitative usability tests and design suggestions.