Hi there. I am Uday Gajendar, a designer in Silicon Valley with almost a decade of professional experience. My ever-increasing body of work includes enterprise software, Web apps, VOIP interfaces, and consumer UI concepts at a range of companies: Oracle, Adobe, Cisco, Netflix, and Involution, a software design studio. Holding degrees in both interaction design (Carnegie Mellon) and industrial design (Michigan), I continually advance the field with talks and papers focused on designing attractive, intuitive digital products.
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2009 Accomplishments
- Attended the annual IxDA Interaction'09 conference in Vancouver. You can read my review here.
- Traveled to Hong Kong, where I toured the HK Polytechnic School of Design--very impressive facilities and program! Photos are here.
- Traveled to Tokyo, where I briefly explored the amazingly rich scene of products, fashions, technologies, and so forth. Photos are here.
- Designed an iPhone App for a Palo Alto-based startup, focused on enabling group event management, discussions, and calendaring, with a corrolary website.
- Published an article in ACM Interactions proposing how to go beyond "data-driven design" methods, towards creating beautiful, soulful engagements with users.
- Great consulting gigs with Netflix, Citrix, and Linked In! Contributed to new proceses, improvements in web and desktop application UI's, and created next-generation concept proposals. A nicely diverse mix of design problems!
- Continued updating my blog as usual...
