Victor Udoewa
Service Design Lead, CDC
Having started his career in the design and development of computational tools for scientific applications, Victor shifted his focus to the social impact space and Information and Communications Technologies for Development, both community and international development. He is a practitioner and advocate of participatory design, a meta-methodology he’s used in service and system design for governments, multilateral institutions, nonprofits, for-profits, and communities, to facilitate skill-building and improved employment opportunities for community members. Bitten by the “civic-innovation bug” he is now focused on creating or improving government products and services for citizens, immigrants, and refugees.
Victor has a particular love for design, learning, and design education. He advocates bringing practices such as positive deviance, pluriversal methods, and systems practice into civic design. He helps leads an equity-centered meetup group and Justice by Design as part of his work to decolonize design. Outside of work you can find Victor teaching salsa, singing with his a cappella group, volunteering as a health trauma and crisis counselor, or (mostly) hanging out with his family.
Rosenverse talks by Victor:
" We design interactions and hope to influence the experience, but we don’t control the system fully. "
Making service tangible: the fastest path to higher performance
November 19, 2025
" Will you learn to let go? Better yet, will you let go? "
Beyond Methods and Diversity: The Roots of Inclusion
March 26, 2024
" The greatest impact is when people call me directly or give a brief to me directly; it's about relationships. "
Panel: Excellence in Impact
March 25, 2024
" Being a semiotician today is like reading everyday cultural signals to spot the bigger concepts behind user choices. "
What emerging methods are advancing UX research [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
September 28, 2023
" Relational research builds relationships and the knowledge automatically flows. "
Research in the Pluriverse
March 29, 2023
" When difference comes together, something new emerges neither could have traveled alone. "
Theme One Intro
March 27, 2023
" This conference felt like a professional bootcamp that helped me grow profoundly as a speaker and thinker. "
Everything You Need to Know about the Civic Design 2022 Call for Presentations
May 17, 2022
" Have a majority of the research team members experienced a sustained and sustainable shift in power? "
Radical Participatory Research: Decolonizing Participatory Processes
March 9, 2022
" Empathy is not a single thing but a combination of intellectual understanding, emotional resonance, and compassionate action. "
Radical Participatory Design: Decolonizing Participatory Design Processes
December 10, 2021
