Christina Wodtke
Template:Short description Template:Redirect Template:Infobox person Christina R. Wodtke (born October 22, 1966) is an American businesswoman and specialist in the area of design thinking, information architecture<ref name="AlbersMazur2003">Template:Cite book</ref> and Management Science (specializing in objectives and key results (OKR) and team productivity.) She is currently a lecturer in HCI at Stanford University.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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.Template:Cn
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.Template:Cn
Wodtke founded Webby-nominated magazine of design thinking [Boxes and Arrows] and has been published continuously (as well as sometime contributor).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.Template:Cn
She is frequently sought out as an expert for interviews and talks on social web design, gamification, user experience, start-up management, and innovation.<ref name="http://www.slideshare.net/cwodtke">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>