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:
" Designers often don’t realize they themselves are providing services and selling a promise of value. "
Making service tangible: the fastest path to higher performance
November 19, 2025
" Colonial ways of being, knowing, and valuing will never produce emancipatory methodologies. "
Beyond Methods and Diversity: The Roots of Inclusion
March 26, 2024
" You can be an amazing researcher and have zero impact, or a bad researcher and have amazing impact. "
Panel: Excellence in Impact
March 25, 2024
" It’s not answers we’re after but further questions to keep the conversation and understanding alive. "
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
" When difference comes together, something new emerges neither could have traveled alone. "
Theme One Intro
March 27, 2023
" The conference is a single track, so everyone listens to the same content together, fostering community focus. "
Everything You Need to Know about the Civic Design 2022 Call for Presentations
May 17, 2022
" If the community is truly leading, you shouldn’t have anyone on the research team who doesn’t want to be there. "
Radical Participatory Research: Decolonizing Participatory Processes
March 9, 2022
" Communities love to define themselves by their gifts and assets, not by their lacks. "
Radical Participatory Design: Decolonizing Participatory Design Processes
December 10, 2021
