Hello! 👋🏽 I am Uday Gajendar — a versatile, strategic UX/Product Designer who applies craft & influence to help teams achieve clarity in their growth goals.

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 enable teams and founders to find product & UX clarity amidst ambiguity/complexity, to satisfy their customers.

Let’s work through that “messy middle” together — Via cross-functional strategy jams, sensemaking methods, customer insights, and concept-car prototypes, I bring vision & structure to complex challenges.

Let’s collaborate to unlock new possibilities, and accelerate your growth/scale strategy via UX. 🔥 🙌🏽

Beneficiaries of my versatile, flexible, strategic design skills — across features, products, and platform lifecycles!

🔗  Links to my work & experiences

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👤 LinkedIn → • 📄  Resumé (PDF) →

💼 Web Portfolio →

• A curated sampler 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 August 2025 — I am available for fractional UX leadership & consulting roles and 1-1 coaching options: 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

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✦ Ready to take the next step? Let’s define a plan that fits your goals. Share a bit about what you need in the form below, and I’ll be in touch!

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