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:

" Songs are our way of knowing; you can tell someone's emotional state by the song they sing. "

Beyond Methods and Diversity: The Roots of Inclusion

March 26, 2024

" You can be an amazing researcher and have zero impact, or be a bad researcher and have amazing impact. "

Panel: Excellence in Impact

March 25, 2024

" Culture carries inequities; researchers must be aware of their own positionality to avoid missing critical context. "

What emerging methods are advancing UX research [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series] (Videoconference)

September 28, 2023

" Mainstream institutional knowledge is just a study of aesthetic, energetic, intuitive, embodied, relational, community, cultural, and lived experiential knowledge. "