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 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

Uday Gajendar

" A movement needs to stand for something, be collective, hopeful, sustainable, and tangible. "

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

March 27, 2025

Uday Gajendar

" Please take advantage of this opportunity to share, ask questions, and learn together even if you are the most introverted person. "

Day 2 Welcome

June 5, 2024

Uday Gajendar

" Sponsor sessions are not just salesy sessions; they’re actually really fantastic sessions put on by your peers. "

Day 1 Welcome

June 4, 2024

Uday Gajendar

" Don’t be afraid to poke the bear; controversy can help make your talk stand out and provoke meaningful discussion. "

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 want to ensure that there is continuity of a conversation that engages the themes and various perspectives. "

Theme One Intro

June 6, 2023

Uday Gajendar

" If a workplace is a dirty fishbowl, forcing someone to take vacation is just putting the fish in a clean bowl temporarily. "

Leading through the long tail of trauma

July 13, 2022

Uday Gajendar

" 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

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

" Craft is a pet issue for me; it remains central even in massive enterprise projects. "

Theme 1: Introduction

June 9, 2021

Uday Gajendar

" One sign of evidence that you've passed an inflection point is when you hire me as a consultant. "

Discussion

May 13, 2015

Uday Gajendar

" These crafted artifacts are quick, dirty, and temporary—they last just long enough to fuel the conversation and decisions. "

The Wicked Craft of Enterprise UX

May 13, 2015

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