Christina Wodtke

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Christina Wodtke
Born	(1966-10-22) October 22, 1966 (age 58)
Alma mater	Kansas City Art Institute
Occupation(s)	author, lecturer
Known for	Founded Women Talk Design, Co-founded Information Architecture Institute, information architecture, OKR goal setting

Christina R. Wodtke (born October 22, 1966) is an American businessperson and specialist in the area of design thinking, information architecture[1] and Management Science (specializing in objectives and key results (OKR) and team productivity.) She is currently a lecturer in HCI at Stanford University.[2]

Information Architecture Blueprints for the Web

Career

Wodtke has held a series of executive roles in the tech industry, most notably leading teams who built the events platform and created an algorithm for Linkedin's newsfeed, leading a redesign of Myspace and its profile pages and leading the design and launch of the Zynga.com gaming platform.^[citation needed]

Wodtke is a co-founder and past president of the Information Architecture Institute. As a User Experience professional, she has worked for such companies as Yahoo, Hot Studio, The New York Times, and Zynga to improve and develop their Web sites.^[citation needed]

Wodtke founded Webby-nominated magazine of design thinking [Boxes and Arrows] and has been published continuously (as well as sometime contributor).[3] Boxes and Arrows was the first online magazine aimed exclusively at working practitioner designers, and has inspired a host of other online 'zines, from UXmatters to Johnny Holland.^[citation needed]

She is frequently sought out as an expert for interviews and talks on social web design, gamification, user experience, start-up management, and innovation.[4][5]

Bibliography

• Wodtke, Christina (2003). Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web (1st ed.). Indianapolis, Ind.: New Riders. ISBN 0-7357-1250-6.
• Wodtke, Christina (2016). Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results (1st ed.). Palo Alto, Cal.: Cucina Media. ISBN 978-0996006026.
• Wodtke, Christina (2017). Pencil Me In: The Business Drawing Book for People Who Can't Draw (1st ed.). Palo Alto, Cal.: Cucina Media. ISBN 978-0996006033.
• Wodtke, Christina (2019). The team that managed itself : a story of leadership (1st ed.). Palo Alto, Cal.: Cucina Media. ISBN 978-0996006071.
• Wodtke, Christina (2016). Introduction to OKRs. O'Reilly Media, Inc.

References

1. Albers, Michael J.; Mazur, Beth (2003-01-01). Content & complexity: information design in technical communication. Taylor & Francis. pp. 26 ff. ISBN 978-0-8058-4140-4. Archived from the original on 2014-07-27. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
2. "Christina R Wodtke's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-10-30. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
3. "Welcome to Boxes and Arrows". 2002-03-11. Archived from the original on 2017-06-29. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
4. "Slideshare profile". Archived from the original on 2021-04-21. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
5. "Lanyrd Profile". Archived from the original on 2017-12-07. Retrieved 2021-12-20.

External links

• Official website