Carmine — Senior Product Designer

Selected works

Books that shaped my thinking

  1. The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
  2. Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
  3. Mapping Experiences by Jim Kalbach
  4. About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin & Christopher Noessel
  5. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan Weinschenk
  6. Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences by Stephen P. Anderson
  7. The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
  8. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
  9. Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value by Melissa Perri
  10. Good Strategy/Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
  11. Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
  12. Strategy Safari: The Complete Guide Through the Wilds of Strategic Management by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand & Joseph Lampel
  13. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  14. The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
  15. Zero to One by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
  16. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
  17. The Startup Owner’s Manual by Steve Blank & Bob Dorf
  18. Influence by Robert Cialdini
  19. Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  20. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  21. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
  22. Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
  23. Principles of Economics by Carl Menger
  24. The Essential Hayek by Donald J. Boudreaux

Designs that shaped my thinking