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
" Whiteness isn’t about color; people of all colors can reinforce white supremacy. "
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
" Different UX methodologies should coexist and collaborate like an ecology of practices rather than compete. "
What emerging methods are advancing UX research [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
September 28, 2023
" We lived a better story worlding and restoring, but the system did not respond or change. "
Research in the Pluriverse
March 29, 2023
" We’re going to laugh, learn, listen, and maybe take some sketch notes. "
Theme One Intro
March 27, 2023
" We pay all of our speakers and provide both subject matter and professional speaker coaching to polish your presentation. "
Everything You Need to Know about the Civic Design 2022 Call for Presentations
May 17, 2022
" Empathy is an impossibility when there is inherent power imbalance between researcher and participant. "
Radical Participatory Research: Decolonizing Participatory Processes
March 9, 2022
" Community members giving their time sacrifice something far more valuable than paid professionals do. "
Radical Participatory Design: Decolonizing Participatory Design Processes
December 10, 2021
