7 Mantras For Quality Developer Experience
Key takeaways from the 2019 Developer Experience LiveCast Developer Experience is a crucial aspect of modern-day API ownership. With fierce competition between API providers in almost every industry,...
View ArticleWhy Your API Needs a Dedicated Developer Experience Team
In the 2019 State of API report, surprisingly, only 37% of API providers viewed documentation as a top priority. When API consumers were asked to vote on the most important characteristic of an API,...
View ArticleHow APIs Are Disrupting The Way We Think
The concept of disruption has been given regal status across businesses, startups, and tech circles in recent years. With such great emphasis placed on change, user experiences are inevitably facing...
View ArticleFunctional vs. Useful: What Makes a Useful API?
It’s a very easy thing to say that if an API exists, then it’s useful. After all, if a developer creates an API, they must have created it for some purpose. However, what is functional isn’t always...
View ArticleHow to Provide APIs With an Existing Information System
In a previous article we encouraged every company to join the digital revolution and provide APIs. But when faced with an existing Information System (IS), the steps toward exposing a business process...
View Article8 Keys To Creating A Truly Usable API
When creating an API, it’s all too easy to release something that “just works.” For some developers who aren’t working at an API-first company where the API is a central component to their business,...
View ArticleHow to Improve API Experience Using Hypermedia
One of the greatest ways to improve and sustain an API userbase is by enhancing developer experience. A way to do this is by improving the usability of an API with hypermedia — a method of interacting...
View ArticleAPI Mediation: Why You Need an API Experience Layer
The API economy has ushered in a new era of application integration, causing a sea change across enterprise IT and application providers alike. APIs are providing access to data securely across...
View Article5 Types of APIs That Will Enhance Your Customer’s Shopping Experience
Consumer behavior is a very fickle thing. For decades — even longer — modern marketers have sought to discover what makes customers act the way they do. With the growth of the web, this question has...
View Article7 Ways to Improve Your Documentation Developer Experience
Developers are a fickle bunch. If you don’t give them what they’re looking for, with a minimum of fuss, they’re likely to look elsewhere. Programmers don’t want to spend an hour installing tooling —...
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