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by Mónika Mikházi 2 years 1 month ago

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
by Mónika Mikházi 2 years 5 months ago

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
by Kathleen De Roo 2 years 7 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 Kathleen De Roo 2 years 10 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 Kathleen De Roo 2 years 10 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 2 years 10 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

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