Karthi Subbaraman

Chief Product Officer

Xperian

Ex: HP

Career Milestones

When Steve Jobs sent an email to IWS Global Design Director in HP saying that we were finally thinking about design the right way, showing a printer i designed!

Priceless moment...

Organization and You

Creating a Maker's guild is a herculean task. I just love the volume and the intensity of the problem. My personal goal is to die well and I am sure Xperian is helping in making it happen every single day :)

Core Competencies

Creative Problem Solving is a meta skillset. It includes User Research, Wireframing, Product Strategy, Facilitation, Storytelling, Visual Thinking, Prototyping and all things that will take me to product success.

Go to food for thought

Inspired by Marty Cagan is a timeless book.
75 resources for Product Managers by Sachin Reiki is priceless.
Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman is my favorite.

Favorite Products

I may be biased to say, the Apple Ecosystem. Every product is well thought through. I still crib about one or two things but Apple is a company i will look upto in product making. Starting from Keynote all the way to Mac OS everything is well thought through from a HCD perspective. My personal experience and I am not going to debate this with Android lovers :)