The Context Canvas

November 15, 2017 Christina
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I’ve been publishing fully formed essays lately, and I thought I’d pause to share a half-baked idea, to invite my readers to help bake it.

Recently I published A Unified Theory for the Design of Just About Anything.  I’m working through a longer piece on applying this to software/web, and while I was writing about Context, I realized a Context Canvas would be a useful tool.

Canvases are living documents you place on the wall of your team workplace to create a shared context. They are amended and updated as the team knowledge grows.

Below is a second draft of a Context Canvas for Product Design and Management. it’s been through one iteration after and early test.
If you use it, please leave a comment on how it worked for you!

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Christina Wodtke

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Christina trains companies to move from insight to execution as principal of her firm, Wodtke Consulting, and teaches the next generation of entrepreneurs at California College of the Arts and Stanford Continuing Education.

Christina has led redesigns and initial product offerings for such companies as LinkedIn, Myspace, Zynga, Yahoo!, Hot Studio, and eGreetings. She has founded two consulting startups, a product startup, and Boxes and Arrows, an online magazine of design; and she co‐founded the Information Architecture Institute. She’s the author of 101 Theses on Design, Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web and her new book about OKRs, Radical Focus.

Currently she teaches at California College of the Arts and Stanford Continuing Education. She speaks everywhere from conferences to universities to boardrooms, and opines across the internet, but most often on eleganthack.com.