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Who will win the Best Overall DevPortal Award for 2020? We bring you our 3rd edition of the DevPortal Awards that applaud excellence and creative solutions in developer portals. In this article, we reveal the new and improved ten nomination categories for the Developer Portal Awards of 2020, updated descriptions and examples for each category, and how you can submit a nomination.

UI design is a key component of a great developer portal. But what makes a great devportal design? How can you avoid obvious pitfalls? What are UI elements you could use to improve the developer experience (DX) of your 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.

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.

In the third part of the series we focus on companies that provide APIs in the field of telecommunication. We included examples both from telecommunication carriers such as Orange or Telenor and from API vendors such as Nexmo or Twilio.

The financing industry offers so many good examples of developer portals that after focusing on traditional banking APIs in the first part of our series, we felt the need to continue with various portals from the FinTech area. As opposed to banks, most companies in this group were born into the digital / API world.