Rosenverse

Uday Gajendar

UX Design Leader

With 20+ years of expertise, Uday Gajendar has designed enterprise B2B SaaS products, consumer apps, mobile payments, creative tools, and automation workflows at Citrix, Netflix, PayPal, Adobe, and Automation Anywhere. He has written for ACM Interactions and spoken at IxDA, IA Summit, The Fluxible, and UX Australia. Uday has guest lectured at CCA’s IxD and DMBA programs and Carnegie Mellon’s M-HCI program. Most recently, he was a design director at Aurora Solar, leading a team to redesign its core sales product. He also curates Rosenfeld Media’s bi-weekly newsletter and has helped organize conferences on “Enterprise UX” and “Designing with AI”.

Rosenverse talks by Uday:

Uday Gajendar

" Enterprise is sexy – that phrase helped me get at least one job. "

10 Years of Enterprise UX: Reflecting on the community and the practice

June 18, 2025

Uday Gajendar

" Skill boot camps don’t create a movement; they’re tactical and don’t provide a cohesive set of ideas. "

From AI to Zeitgeist: Theory as the design antidote to AI hype

March 27, 2025

Uday Gajendar

" You don’t need to take notes. We want you to pay attention and not be distracted. "

Day 2 Welcome

June 5, 2024

Uday Gajendar

" You can't spell the word air without saying ai, it requires those letters. "

Day 1 Welcome

June 4, 2024

Uday Gajendar

" Most bad panels feel like a bunch of people showing up at the last minute without shared goals or preparation. "

Coffee with Lou #3: What Makes for a Successful UX Conference Presentation?

May 2, 2024

Uday Gajendar

" Helen will bridge AI/ML towards engaging with data scientists to augment humanity with complex data. "

Theme Four Intro

June 6, 2023

Uday Gajendar

" We encourage you to continue engaging with Slack channels and offer your own thoughtful questions. "

Theme One Intro

June 6, 2023

Uday Gajendar

" Acknowledging and validating what someone has told you creates psychological safety and trust in leadership. "

Leading through the long tail of trauma

July 13, 2022

Uday Gajendar

" Assume everybody has the potential for trauma to show up in any interaction you have with them. "

Leading through the long tail of trauma

July 7, 2022

Uday Gajendar

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

Leading through the long tail of trauma

July 7, 2022

Uday Gajendar

" Agile as trauma is a useful essay to understand how agile can harm design practices. "

The Rise of Meta-Design: A Starter Playbook

May 19, 2022

Uday Gajendar

" Designing at scale means handling millions of users and dozens of geographies with all their unique challenges. "

Theme 1: Introduction

June 9, 2021

Uday Gajendar

" We’ve put much more effort into workshop facilitation and teaching how to use the space effectively than on the design system itself. "

Discussion

May 13, 2015

Uday Gajendar

" Nobody wants to buy or use a sloppy product, especially when enterprise users rely on the apps for 8 to 10 hours a day. "

The Wicked Craft of Enterprise UX

May 13, 2015

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