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
2022-23 Courses
- Design for Behavior Change
CS 247B, SYMSYS 195B (Win) - Design for Play
CS 247G (Spr) - Designing Serious Games
CS 377G (Win) - Human Centered Product Management
CS 177 (Aut) -
Independent Studies (9)
- Curricular Practical Training
CS 390A (Sum) - Independent Project
CS 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Project
CS 399P (Aut) - Independent Study
SYMSYS 196 (Aut) - Independent Work
CS 199 (Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Work
CS 199P (Aut, Win) - Senior Project
CS 191 (Aut, Spr) - Supervised Undergraduate Research
CS 195 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Writing Intensive Senior Research Project
CS 191W (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Curricular Practical Training
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Prior Year Courses
2021-22 Courses
- Design for Behavior Change
CS 247B, SYMSYS 195B (Win) - Design for Play
CS 247G (Spr) - Design for Understanding
CS 247I (Aut) - Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
CS 547 (Spr) - Social Computing
CS 278 (Spr)
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)
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)
- Design for Behavior Change
Stanford Advisees
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Master's Program Advisor
Matthew Ayoob, Iris Fu, Shana Hadi, Andy Huynh, Sophie Jin, Arjun Karanam, Ecy King, Annie Ma, Leilenah Mamea, Annie Nguyen, Kaitlin Peng, Connor Settle, Serena Tang, Annabelle Wang, Michelle Xu