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How can you attract and convert new users through your developer portal? How can you make sure your customer developers can easily onboard and integrate with your APIs?

In this article we will focus on the categories Best Onboarding and Best API References Documentation. Devportal Awards 2019 is open for nominations. We are looking forward to your thoughts on API developer portals!

How can you convince future customers that your products and APIs provide the best solution for their needs? How can you address users that are interested in how to excel their business? In this article we will focus on the categories Best API Business Model and Best Decision Maker Documentation. Devportal Awards 2019 is open for nominations. We are looking forward to your thoughts on API developer portals!

In the first part of our new Docs As Code series, you will read about the philosophy behind the approach coupled with Quality Assurance, and how you can get started.

When you pay attention to accessibility, internationalization & localization elements, the overall user experience will be better and your users will be more likely to engage with your devportal. Accessibility is not only for frontenders and visual designers, localization is not just about words. Inclusivity has to be embraced from the very beginning of your project. DevPortal Awards 2019 is open for nominations, with two new categories. We are looking forward to hearing what you think are the outstanding API developer portals and why you think so.

We would like to introduce a new tool called Rector that could speed up an upgrade process and can reduce upgrade costs. We run a proof of concept for the possible use cases in which Rector can be beneficial for Drupal developers - including but not limited to the automated update to Drupal 9.

Driving API adoption is crucial for a developer portal. How can you integrate all your users’ needs into your devportal? What are the jobs that a developer portal needs to fulfill? In this post, we’ll explore how you can strengthen user engagement right from the very start of your API program regardless of whether you have a public-facing, partner or internal devportal.

After stock photo companies, video player software providers and audio distribution platforms this article will analyze developer portals in the journalism industry. We focused on two types of news organizations: the traditional ones that already existed before the digital era (such as TV channels, newspapers or radios) and those that were born web-based (and serve as online data providers). Our research revealed some of the differences in their approach to developer portals.

At APIdays Paris 2018, Ronnie Mitra gave an insightful talk on how to improve API documentation and learning experiences, for which he gathered inspiration from the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition.

In this post, we’ll dive a little deeper into the whole topic and illustrate Ronnie’s conclusions by giving an overview of content and DX elements we imagine would help developers along their learning journey.

The goal of the DevPortal Awards is to recognize the best developer portals and learn from their practices. In our previous post we already shared the jury’s reasoning for choosing the winners, but of course we were thrilled to hear the opinion of the other side, the teams that made their portal an awarded success!

What are the world's best devportals? What do they do differently? Are there any best practices that everybody could and/or should be doing? Our primary aim with the Devportal Awards was to answer these questions - or at least trigger a discussion about them.

Users today expect their music, videos and pictures to be available anywhere at anytime. Developers need APIs that can provide this to end users, but they also need developer portals that enable them to integrate these APIs into their applications as efficiently and quickly as possible. In this post we provide some great examples from a selection of such publicly available developer portals.

Most organizations never consciously address the experience of the developers that create APIs, the upstream. This is only logical, upstream Developer eXperience doesn’t always need attention: a team that is dedicated to APIs will overcome friction on its own terms. In large enterprise organizations, however, where API development might be a secondary priority of a team, upstream DX can make the difference between a failed and a successful digital transformation initiative.