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:
" Everyone, whatever your job is, is working for this service on behalf of the customer. "
Making service tangible: the fastest path to higher performance
November 19, 2025
" For the iBio people, knowledge is relational, not objectified, emerging from relationships like songs. "
Beyond Methods and Diversity: The Roots of Inclusion
March 26, 2024
" I think you can't be good at research unless you're also good at getting that research across. "
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
" Relational research builds relationships and the knowledge automatically flows. "
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
" You are allowed to say white supremacy culture here, even if you can’t say that in your day-to-day work. "
Everything You Need to Know about the Civic Design 2022 Call for Presentations
May 17, 2022
" Community members are always participating and always leading, and they may invite professional researchers up to equal participation and equitable co-leadership. "
Radical Participatory Research: Decolonizing Participatory Processes
March 9, 2022
" Let the community lead from the very first step: they will determine goals, participants, and logistics. "
Radical Participatory Design: Decolonizing Participatory Design Processes
December 10, 2021
