Hello! 👋🏽 I am Uday Gajendar — a versatile, strategic UX/Product Designer who applies craft & influence to help teams move forward with clarity & conviction.

Backed by 20+ years designing enterprise B2B SaaS, consumer apps, mobile payments, and creative tools at companies like Citrix, Netflix, PayPal, Adobe, and Aurora Solar, I help teams & founders achieve clarity with conviction. Through cross-functional strategy workshops, sensemaking diagrams, customer insight activities, and Northstar concepts, I bring vision & structure to complex challenges. Let’s collaborate to unlock new possibilities, and accelerate your UX strategy. 🔥 🙌🏽

Companies and clients that I’ve served over my career, most recently Aurora Solar.

As an experienced designer & team leader, I help clients & teams solve complex challenges with strategic impact to drive innovation & business value — conversion, retention, and revenue. 📈 💰

Links to my work & experiences —

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👤 LinkedIn → • 📄  Resumé (PDF) →

💼 Web Portfolio →

• A curated subset of projects with context, screens, and impacts.

🗺️ Master Case Studies Deck (PDF) →

• Master PDF deck with case studies and my philosophy of shaping design culture and being a leader. Best to download locally.

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As of April 2025 I am available for fractional leadership roles and 1-1 coaching — 1) For design leaders/managers and 2) For junior designers or recent graduates of HCI programs needing job search prep. Details below.

• UX job search preparation — for junior IC / recent grads / new entrants

• Coaching for design leaders — for senior IC leaders (lead/staff/principal) & managers

• Fractional leadership & consulting — for startup founders