Bio
Christina Wodtke is an author, speaker, and lecturer at Stanford with insight into human innovation and high-performing teams. Her resume includes re-design and initial product offerings with LinkedIn, MySpace, Zynga, Yahoo! and others, as well as founding three startups, an online design magazine called Boxes and Arrows, and co-founding the Information Architecture Institute.
Christina uses the power of story to connect with audiences and readers through her worldwide speaking engagements and her Amazon category-bestselling books. Her bestselling book, Radical Focus, tackles the OKR movement and startup culture with an eye to getting the right things done. Her other books include The Team that Managed Itself, Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web and Pencil Me In (on visual thinking for the workplace.) Christina’s work is personable, insightful, knowledgeable, and engaging. Find out more information (and get your Focus worksheet) at cwodtke.com.
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Computer Science
2020-21 Courses
- Design for Behavior Change
CS 247B, SYMSYS 195B (Win) - Design for Impact in Social Systems
CS 187 (Win) - Introduction to Game Design
CS 247G, SYMSYS 195G (Aut, Spr) -
Independent Studies (13)
- Computer Laboratory
CS 393 (Spr, Sum) - Curricular Practical Training
CS 390A (Spr, Sum) - Curricular Practical Training
CS 390B (Spr, Sum) - Curricular Practical Training
CS 390C (Spr, Sum) - Independent Database Project
CS 395 (Spr, Sum) - Independent Project
CS 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Project
CS 399P (Aut, Spr, Sum) - Independent Work
CS 199 (Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Work
CS 199P (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Programming Service Project
CS 192 (Spr, Sum) - Senior Project
CS 191 (Win, Spr, Sum) - Supervised Undergraduate Research
CS 195 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Writing Intensive Senior Project (WIM)
CS 191W (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Computer Laboratory
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Prior Year Courses
2019-20 Courses
- Design for Understanding
CS 247I (Aut) - Designing Serious Games
CS 377G (Win) - History and Ethics of Design
ME 120 (Spr) - Introduction to Game Design
CS 247G (Spr) - Topics in Human-Computer Interaction: Teaching Studio Classes
CS 377T (Aut)
2018-19 Courses
- Designing Serious Games
CS 377G (Aut, Spr) - Human-Computer Interaction Design Studio
CS 247 (Win, Spr)
2017-18 Courses
- Designing Systems for Humans
CS 377I (Spr) - Human-Computer Interaction Design Studio
CS 247 (Win, Spr)
- Design for Understanding
Stanford Advisees
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Master's Program Advisor
Paulina Anzaldo, Sean Chang, Isabella Fulford, Shana Hadi, Christopher Howard, Alexander Hurtado, Starr Jiang, Clara Kelley, Khuyen Le, Swee Kiat Lim, Gwen Ray, Alyssa Romanos, Medha Verma