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
" 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
" 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
" Sponsor sessions are not just salesy sessions; they’re actually really fantastic sessions put on by your peers. "
Day 1 Welcome
June 4, 2024
" 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
" Helen will bridge AI/ML towards engaging with data scientists to augment humanity with complex data. "
Theme Four Intro
June 6, 2023
" We want to ensure that there is continuity of a conversation that engages the themes and various perspectives. "
Theme One Intro
June 6, 2023
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Craft is a pet issue for me; it remains central even in massive enterprise projects. "
Theme 1: Introduction
June 9, 2021
" One sign of evidence that you've passed an inflection point is when you hire me as a consultant. "
Discussion
May 13, 2015
" 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