Check out my self-serve class on OKRs! When it comes to measuring success, people tend to gravitate toward […]
Why Qualitative Data Belongs in Your Key Results
AI Can Synthesize Data for You—But Should It?
AI is fantastic at synthesizing data. It can process vast amounts of information, surface trends, and summarize research […]
Continuous Reflection: Driving Success Across the Product Lifecycle
Every product has a lifecycle, and every company navigates it differently. Some ideas take root and grow into […]
Strategy is Not War; It’s Gardening
When most people think of strategy, they think of war. And it’s no wonder—our history books, leadership courses, […]
Agile, Lean Startup, and OKRs: Cinderella’s Glass Slipper
Agile, Lean Startup, and OKRs weren’t created by sprawling corporations. They were developed by small teams trying to […]
King of the Mountain, er, Middle
In product management, there’s a classic image that almost everyone in tech knows: the Venn diagram where the […]
Using Ikigai with Personal OKRs
Finding and achieving the right goals in life isn’t easy. You may feel pulled in multiple directions and […]
Diagrams for Thinking Through a Digital Products’ Architecture
I’m sharing this out in case some educator benefits from it. If you want to go a little […]
Design’s Unsexy Middle Bits
While Design Thinking gets all the attention, it is not the same as (Digital) Product Design. In How I […]
Five Habits of Design Thinking
There are three thinking styles that have transformed how we develop new products today: Agile, Lean (Startup) and […]
Five Habits of Design Thinking
There are three thinking styles that have transformed how we develop new products today: Agile, Lean (Startup) and […]
The Intuitive and the Unlearnable
Why some designs won’t ever stop sucking Again, it starts on ze twitters Intuitive is one of the most […]
What I’d Rather Talk About When You’re Talking About UX
I blame Alan Cooper. This time. In a moment of pique (or boredom, or if he’s like me, […]
Keynote for WIAD Boston
Miss me while I’m heads down working on my current book (and beginning my teaching practice at Stanford?) […]
What testing do I do when, and why?
I’ve been too busy to post, but I just tripped over this “Golden Oldie:” CarbonIQ UCD Methods . […]
Tweaking the Persona
This is another “half baked” post. Hope it’s useful! Personas have been around for a long time in […]
A Unified Theory for Designing Just About Anything
A few years back I was obsessed with the question of why some companies rocked at one thing, and […]
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Design Thinking
If you like this article, you probably want to sign up to be notified when my new book on […]
Draw Me a Picture!
OMG, it’s getting real, people! Pencil Me In is almost ready for print… sign up to find out […]
Foundations of Interaction Design
I teach a number of classes at CCA, including Creative Founder, Story and Play. One year I tried on […]
Bad Advice
I was thinking about advice the other day, and thinking about when it doesn’t help. I was at […]
A Visual Vocabulary for Concept Models
Part One: Rendering Relationships Sign up to be alerted when Pencil Me In, my book on visual thinking, […]
Pencil Me In
Working with Pictures was so well received, I decided to do a “real” book. Eight months later (a.k.a. […]
Five Models for Making Sense of Complex Systems
In one of the classes I teach at CCA, students were confused by mental models, conceptual models, concept […]
Feedback for Teams
This is a write-up of a key learning from my fall class “The Creative Founder,” open to Juniors […]
Alphabets and Logographs
When I first got into Visual Thinking, I came across a core concept that no one agreed on: […]
How to Make a Concept Model
Originally published in Boxes and Arrows May 6th, 2014. I realized recently I never published this here, on my […]
Design All the Things! UX Lausanne Talk
Opening keynote, Lausanne, Switzerland. Christina Wodtke – Design All the Things! from UX Lausanne on Vimeo. Designers fall […]
Story in Space
This is a post for my Story class students, posted here in case it’s interesting to my readers. […]
Product as Hero Storyboard
Long time readers know I am completely obsessed with story architecture, and use it in many things: writing (of […]