Christina Wodtke has been an information architect since the dawn of the dotcom era and is a leader in the growing field of Information Architecture (IA). She founded Boxes and Arrows, an online magazine of IA; is president of the Asilomar Institute of Information Architecture; chaired the fourth annual ASIS&T summit on IA; and has spoken on the topic of IA at conferences from Seybold to Web World.

Christina is currently leading the design team working on Yahoo! search and Directory. Formally a partner at the renowned user experience agency Carbon IQ, she has worked with clients such as Shockwave.com, Wells Fargo, Sprite, and Houghton Mifflin, as well as nonprofits such as BraveKids.org and UrbanSchool.org.

When not thinking up yet another new idea to eat up her dwindling spare time, she is learning to bake bread to pacify her recently re-pat’d French husband, digging thoughtfully in her Palo Alto garden, photographing everything with her tiny digital camera, searching for cheap fares to Europe, and begging people to quit redefining Information Architecture.

To learn more, visit her personal site at www.eleganthack.com, the previously mentioned www.boxesandarrows.com, or the web site for this book, www.blueprintsfortheweb.com.