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:
" Good designers can shift scale fluidly between the big picture and craft-level details. "
From AI to Zeitgeist: Theory as the design antidote to AI hype
March 27, 2025
" Learning is social. Let’s do this together. "
Day 2 Welcome
June 5, 2024
" Sponsor sessions are not just salesy sessions. They're really fantastic sessions put on by people who happen to work at a sponsor's company. "
Day 1 Welcome
June 4, 2024
" Give a s**t. Care about your topic, and convey that enthusiasm to make a talk resonate. "
Coffee with Lou #3: What Makes for a Successful UX Conference Presentation? (Videoconference)
May 2, 2024
" Helen will bridge from AI and machine learning to how we engage with data scientists to augment humanity. "
Theme Four Intro
June 6, 2023
" What does it mean to bring a systems lens to a complex problem within the enterprise? "
Theme One Intro
June 6, 2023
" Leadership modeling vulnerability and openness about mental health is the first step in creating trauma-informed workplaces. "
Leading through the long tail of trauma (Videoconference)
July 13, 2022
" Leaders are also hurt leaders; their self-awareness and healing are essential to create safe spaces. "
Leading through the long tail of trauma (Videoconference)
July 13, 2022
" Design is what’s left after you coordinate interaction design, IA, visual design — the coordinating function. "
The Rise of Meta-Design: A Starter Playbook (Videoconference)
May 19, 2022
" Cornelius Rushrew will set the stage and set the tone for how to deal with challenges at scale. "
Theme 1: Introduction
June 9, 2021
" I start by talking to the people—end users and subject matter experts with decades of experience. "
Discussion
May 13, 2015
" Temporary, quick, and sometimes rough artifacts have a lifespan just long enough for the conversation they enable. "
The Wicked Craft of Enterprise UX
May 13, 2015
" You cannot heal your way out of death or oppression by reforming oppressive systems or making them more user-friendly. "
Leading through the long tail of trauma (Videoconference)
January 1, 1970