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 UX is basically the design of cluster-fuck complexity, scale, and hairball relationships. "
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
" Lauren Cantor is a heavy hitter gathering all the really good resources and putting them together. "
Day 2 Welcome
June 5, 2024
" Manuel Herrera is creating sketch notes for every session; you’ll have access to those. "
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
" Jenny and Will will take a foundational look at wielding data visualization and product analytics effectively. "
Theme Four Intro
June 6, 2023
" Systems thinking is an essential part of my own portfolio or playbook as a design leader. "
Theme One Intro
June 6, 2023
" Good ethical trauma responsive design should really be what we just call design — it should be intrinsic. "
Leading through the long tail of trauma
July 13, 2022
" If you have any leadership in your organization and you want to be trauma-informed, start with how you organize and support your people. "
Leading through the long tail of trauma
July 7, 2022
" You can’t heal your way out of death or oppression by reforming oppressive systems; you must dismantle them. "
Leading through the long tail of trauma
July 7, 2022
" Are we feeling trapped in this thing called UX design, limited by mechanized processes like agile? "
The Rise of Meta-Design: A Starter Playbook
May 19, 2022
" Craft is a pet issue for me; it remains central even in massive enterprise projects. "
Theme 1: Introduction
June 9, 2021
" I always like to try to introduce a wild card from a slightly orthogonal field to spark the thinking. "
Discussion
May 13, 2015
" We need everyone to roll up their sleeves and be a part of the creative process to spark innovation and even delight. "
The Wicked Craft of Enterprise UX
May 13, 2015