Uday Gajendar

" Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. "

" We don’t have meetings without all three sides of the business, product, and design coming together now. "

" Trying to figure all this out in business settings is nearly impossible; we have to step away and foster ongoing conversations. "

" Hopefully the internet stays strong and holds steady despite the stormy weather here in Louisiana. "

" We want you to feel a very strong invitation from us to participate. "

" Give a s**t about your topic. If you’re not trying to change something, why are you on stage? "

" We held an open dialogue on how designers deal with imperfect and incomplete data amid delivery pressures. "

" It seems quite appropriate to start off enterprise UX with a discussion around systems thinking. "

" Good ethical trauma responsive design should really be what we just call design — it should be intrinsic. "

" Leadership modeling ‘being human’ with stress and mental health normalizes trauma-informed culture. "

" Trauma-informed work is a journey of becoming, not a destination. "

" Are we feeling trapped in this thing called UX design, limited by mechanized processes like agile? "

" You have to build something, ship something, and make something especially when dealing with hundreds of thousands of objects. "

" We treat the design system like a software product with a backlog, QA, and a product owner prioritizing feature requests. "

" That seven-foot-wide diagram was our product, not just the cleaned-up UI screens—this artifact triggered a whole new conversation. "