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
" Sometimes it's just not even related to the research skills, sometimes relationships really matter. "
Panel: Excellence in Impact
March 25, 2024
" AI doesn’t have a body or sensory experience, so it can’t replace human contextual understanding in research. "
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
" Transformation research is a transformative force. "
Theme One Intro
March 27, 2023
" The community is a big tent - welcoming diverse perspectives and geographies to define and shape civic design. "
Everything You Need to Know about the Civic Design 2022 Call for Presentations
May 17, 2022
" The pace of radical participatory research must match the pace of availability, trust, and relationship. "
Radical Participatory Research: Decolonizing Participatory Processes
March 9, 2022
" Empowerment is problematic because when we empower others, we reinforce the hierarchy we seek to subvert. "
Radical Participatory Design: Decolonizing Participatory Design Processes
December 10, 2021
