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by 3 years 2 months ago
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
by 3 years 4 months ago
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
by 3 years 5 months ago
Cognitive accessibility for developer portals
How we perceive information (our cognition) depends on many internal and external factors influencing our day-to-day lives. In this article, we highlight how the European Accessibility Act will help to increase accessibility and what are the essential aspects of the upcoming changes which will influence the newly marketed products and services.
Categories: UX & Research
by 3 years 5 months ago
Design the experience: video games vs devportals
In video games and developer portals, the design is planned with the user’s experience in mind. There are several differences, but we can also discover many similarities. This article will look at the various user experiences and analyze how onboarding works with a diverse audience in the case of video games and developer portals.
Categories: UX & Research
by 3 years 11 months ago
Components of a developer portal
A summary of some best practices and an overview of the documentation components used on developer portals. The points are illustrated with examples from award-winning API developer portals.
Categories: UX & Research
by 4 years 1 month ago
How do developers learn about APIs?
We look at the archetypes, contextual influences, and commonalities in API learning for developers and what content and features are needed as a result.
Categories: UX & Research