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:
" You can’t develop a career just mastering a tool; those become obsolete as technology evolves. "
From AI to Zeitgeist: Theory as the design antidote to AI hype
March 27, 2025
" Even if you are the most junior person or the most introverted, please share and ask questions. "
Day 2 Welcome
June 5, 2024
" This conference is not an endpoint, but a path to broadening our understanding of the potential and pitfalls of designing with AI. "
Day 1 Welcome
June 4, 2024
" Inclusivity, collaboration, and iteration are the three principles we really care about when creating conference programs. "
Coffee with Lou #3: What Makes for a Successful UX Conference Presentation? (Videoconference)
May 2, 2024
" This massive topic can be overwhelming, but there are perspectives and approaches that help. "
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
" Trauma is not so much an external event as it is the way that event embeds in an individual's body. "
Leading through the long tail of trauma (Videoconference)
July 13, 2022
" Trauma is a psychological experience shaped by individual perception, not just a traumatic event itself. "
Leading through the long tail of trauma (Videoconference)
July 13, 2022
" Agile as trauma — it’s an eye-opening way to consider what agile really does to UX. "
The Rise of Meta-Design: A Starter Playbook (Videoconference)
May 19, 2022
" Kenneth Bowles will close things out with a talk around responsibility and ethics. "
Theme 1: Introduction
June 9, 2021
" When users say, oh my goodness, I didn't know it did that, that's a sign of overwhelming complexity. "
Discussion
May 13, 2015
" Nobody wants to buy or use a sloppy product, especially when enterprise users engage daily for hours. "
The Wicked Craft of Enterprise UX
May 13, 2015
" If you have any leadership in your organization, start with the way you organize, especially HR policies. "
Leading through the long tail of trauma (Videoconference)
January 1, 1970