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:
" Design systems help us bring healthy consistency across digital and non-digital experiences for equity. "
Making service tangible: the fastest path to higher performance
November 19, 2025
" Our ways of being are roots that grow into ways of knowing, doing, and methods, all nourished by systems of value. "
Beyond Methods and Diversity: The Roots of Inclusion
March 26, 2024
" Fall in love with the problem, not the solution. "
Panel: Excellence in Impact
March 25, 2024
" Large language models are where computers and language become indistinguishable, breaking down boundaries between cognition and technology. "
What emerging methods are advancing UX research [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
September 28, 2023
" There was a time when people vastly prioritized truth over story, claiming to know all things and bring everything to the light. "
Research in the Pluriverse
March 29, 2023
" Open yourself up to the ways of being, knowing, doing, working, living, and breathing of others. "
Theme One Intro
March 27, 2023
" Design by means letting the people we serve lead the process and ourselves to drop our egos and let go. "
Everything You Need to Know about the Civic Design 2022 Call for Presentations
May 17, 2022
" When we empower others, we are actually reinforcing the hierarchy we seek to subvert. "
Radical Participatory Research: Decolonizing Participatory Processes
March 9, 2022
" Land acknowledgments don’t actually change the allocation of power or resources; they work at the mythological level. "
Radical Participatory Design: Decolonizing Participatory Design Processes
December 10, 2021
