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Enable developers’ peak performance: a deep dive into user-centered design
How can one make their developer portal, API documentation platform tailored to their users’ needs? Why is it beneficial to boost the developers’ flow state? This article is a follow-up with practical steps and examples, building on top of part one. To better illustrate our points, we show worked examples from among the DevPortal Awards nominees of 2023.
Categories: UX & Research
Design the platform for flow to advance API integration success
This article delves into the connection between intentional design and developers' peak productivity and their advantageous impact on your business. In other words, we focus on flow theory based on the research and interviews conducted by Pronovix's UX Team.
Categories: UX & Research
When do Software Developers Use Guides?
We aim to equip you with insights to enhance your developer portal, whether by incorporating user-centered design to already planned content, or by strategically choosing the most effective guide type to improve the API integration experience.
Categories: UX & Research
Expectation management for API products - setting yourself up for (developer) success
Providing a delightful developer experience is about more than just satisfying technical requirements: there are psychological factors at play that influence expectations towards API products. In this article, we explore the importance of expectation management for developer success.
Categories: UX & Research
Onboarding as a Key Aspect of Business Success
Developer Success as an objective can be seen as the combination of successfully serving the needs of the different participants in the API economy: application user experience, developer experience, and value exchange. From among these three, here we focus on the onboarding needs- and behavior of the developer who builds the application.
Categories: UX & Research
Cognitive accessibility for developer portals: accessible content for every user
The European Accessibility Act will bring many changes in the private sector in 2025. Regardless of your developer portal’s maturity, we recommend inspecting its content and layout with the eyes of accessibility. Not only because of the legal requirements but also to make your digital content inclusive for everyone. Clear and concise structure and wording help to guide the user through your developer portal. In this article, we show you a few guidelines for doing so.
Categories: UX & Research
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