Christina Wodtke Explained
| Christina Wodtke |
| Birth Date: | 22 October 1966 |
| Alma Mater: | Kansas City Art Institute |
| Occupation: | 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]
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.
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.
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.
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
- Book: Wodtke. Christina. Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web. 2003. New Riders. Indianapolis, Ind.. 0-7357-1250-6. 1st.
- Book: Wodtke. Christina. Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results. 2016. Cucina Media. Palo Alto, Cal. . 978-0996006026. 1st.
- Book: Wodtke. Christina. Pencil Me In: The Business Drawing Book for People Who Can't Draw. 2017. Cucina Media. Palo Alto, Cal.. 978-0996006033. 1st.
- Book: Wodtke, Christina . The team that managed itself : a story of leadership . Cucina Media . Palo Alto, Cal. . 2019 . 978-0996006071 . 1st .
- Book: Wodtke, Christina . 2016 . Introduction to OKRs . O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Notes and References
- Book: Albers. Michael J.. Mazur. Beth. Content & complexity: information design in technical communication. 6 July 2011. 2003-01-01. Taylor & Francis. 978-0-8058-4140-4. 26 ff. 2014-07-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20140727221955/http://books.google.com/books?id=24C4z0fBGTQC&pg=PA26. live.
- Web site: Christina R Wodtke's Profile Stanford Profiles. 2020-10-27. profiles.stanford.edu. 2020-10-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20201030154744/https://profiles.stanford.edu/christina-wodtke. live.
- News: Welcome to Boxes and Arrows. 2002-03-11. 2017-09-14. en-US. 2017-06-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20170629225648/http://boxesandarrows.com/welcome-to-boxes-and-arrows/. live.
- Web site: Slideshare profile . 2021-12-20 . 2021-04-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210421103905/https://www.slideshare.net/cwodtke . live .
- Web site: Lanyrd Profile. 2021-12-20. 2017-12-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20171207224415/http://lanyrd.com/profile/cwodtke/. live.
