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Christina is currently a Lecturer at Stanford with an appointment in the HCI group in the…
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Happy Monday and I've got another episode of my podcast, Dollars to Donuts, where I speak with the people who lead user research in their…
Happy Monday and I've got another episode of my podcast, Dollars to Donuts, where I speak with the people who lead user research in their…
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Are you working with confidence ratings for your OKRs? https://lnkd.in/g7aTcm3w
Are you working with confidence ratings for your OKRs? https://lnkd.in/g7aTcm3w
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Friday Flashback on an evergreen topic: diagramming and mapping complex systems https://lnkd.in/g6Pj7ijC
Friday Flashback on an evergreen topic: diagramming and mapping complex systems https://lnkd.in/g6Pj7ijC
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Experience
Education
Volunteer Experience
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Founder
Women Talk Design
- Present 10 years 8 months
Human Rights
This is a site featuring Women Speakers in Design and Tech. www.womentalkdesign.com
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Co-Founder
Institute of Information Architecture
- 14 years
Education
The Information Architecture Institute is a nonprofit (501c6) organization of volunteers. Our singular focus is to make the world's information clearer and easier to use by improving how people learn, practice and teach information architecture (IA).
I co-founded the Institute with Lou Rosenfeld and served as its first president. I have since been an adviser and spoken pro bono at many of their events.
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Pencil Me In
Cucina Media
Want to get better in business? Learn how to draw. There’s no faster, cheaper prototype in the world than a sketch on a sheet of paper. What’s unclear in words is suddenly crystal clear in a sketch, and you—and your team—can tackle problems in entirely new ways. Play around with ideas. Document your process. Think on paper. Visual thinking brings a whole new power to work. Think you can’t draw? Don’t worry! The simplest sketches are the most effective at communication and problem solving, so…
Want to get better in business? Learn how to draw. There’s no faster, cheaper prototype in the world than a sketch on a sheet of paper. What’s unclear in words is suddenly crystal clear in a sketch, and you—and your team—can tackle problems in entirely new ways. Play around with ideas. Document your process. Think on paper. Visual thinking brings a whole new power to work. Think you can’t draw? Don’t worry! The simplest sketches are the most effective at communication and problem solving, so you can begin drawing in less time than your average coffee break. Pictures and visual communication harken back to the stone age for good reason--they’re natural, they’re quick, and they work. And they’ll work for you. If you’re looking for the next tool to help you solve your hardest (and most interesting) challenges at work, try a paper and pencil. This book teaches you how to use them well--and have a bit of fun along the way. With contributions from Amelie Sarrazin, Aleksandra Micek, Taylor Reese, Dan Brown, Daniel Cook, Kate Rutter, Eva-Lotta Lamm, Matthew Magain, Sunni Brown, Cristina Negrut, Daryl Meier Fahrni, Marc Bourguignon, Laura Klein, David Gray, Melissa Kim, Mike Rohde, Brian Gulassa, Andrew Reid, Rolf Faste, Raph Koster, Stone Librande, Robin Hunicke, Alicia Loring, Erin Malone, Stephen P. Anderson, Giorgia Lupi, Alex Osterwalder, Noelle Stransky, James Young, and Dan Roam.
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Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results
How do you inspire a diverse team to work together, going all out in pursuit of a single, challenging goal? How do you get your team to commit to bold goals? How do you stay motivated despite setbacks and disappointments? And what do you do when it looks like you’re headed for failure? In Radical Focus, Christina Wodtke combines her hard earned experience as an executive at Zynga, Linkedin and many of Silicon Valley’s hottest companies to answer those questions. It’s not about to-do lists and…
How do you inspire a diverse team to work together, going all out in pursuit of a single, challenging goal? How do you get your team to commit to bold goals? How do you stay motivated despite setbacks and disappointments? And what do you do when it looks like you’re headed for failure? In Radical Focus, Christina Wodtke combines her hard earned experience as an executive at Zynga, Linkedin and many of Silicon Valley’s hottest companies to answer those questions. It’s not about to-do lists and accountability charts. It’s about creating a framework for regular check-ins, key results, and most of all, the beauty of a good fail – and how to take a temporary disaster and turn it into a future success. In this book, Wodtke takes you through the fictional case study of Hanna and Jack, who are struggling to survive in their own startup. They fight shiny object syndrome, losing focus, and dealing with communication issues. After hard lessons, they learn the practical steps they need to do what must be done. The second half of the book demonstrates how to use Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to help teams realize big goals in a methodical way, leaving nothing to chance. Laid out in a practical but compelling way, she makes the lessons of Hanna and Jack’s story clear and actionable. Ready to move your team in the right direction? Read this, and learn the system of creating your focus – and finding success.
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Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web (book)
New Riders
The updated and full-color edition of Christina Wodtke's classic book introduces the core concepts of information architecture: organizing Web site content so it can be found, designing Web site interaction so that it's pleasant to use, and creating an interface that is easy to understand. Includes coverage of search, findability, social media, tags, and folksonomies.
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Boxes & Arrows (design journal)
Boxes & Arrows, LLC
Boxes and Arrows is devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business. Since 2001, it’s been a peer-written journal promoting contributors who want to provoke thinking, push limits, and teach a few things along the way.
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Patents
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A System and Method for Providing an Improved Graphical User Interface for Search (Yahoo!)
Issued US 2005/0050024
Languages
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French
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Sixteen years later we're still teaching Lean. It's a good reminder that "If you're tired of saying it, people are starting to hear it."
Sixteen years later we're still teaching Lean. It's a good reminder that "If you're tired of saying it, people are starting to hear it."
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Discuss "Do we really need a simple definition of design or should we accept that design is too complex a matter to be summarized in less than a…
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I've been thinking about temporal landmarks. They play a big role in both Radical Focus and in The Team that Managed Itself. I wrote about their…
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