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:
" 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
" 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
" You don’t need to take notes. We want you to pay attention and not be distracted. "
Day 2 Welcome
June 5, 2024
" You can't spell the word air without saying ai, it requires those letters. "
Day 1 Welcome
June 4, 2024
" 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
" Helen will bridge AI/ML towards engaging with data scientists to augment humanity with complex data. "
Theme Four Intro
June 6, 2023
" We encourage you to continue engaging with Slack channels and offer your own thoughtful questions. "
Theme One Intro
June 6, 2023
" 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
" 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
" Leadership modeling ‘being human’ with stress and mental health normalizes trauma-informed culture. "
Leading through the long tail of trauma
July 7, 2022
" 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
" Designing at scale means handling millions of users and dozens of geographies with all their unique challenges. "
Theme 1: Introduction
June 9, 2021
" 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
" 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