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by 5 years 9 months ago
Engage Users: Inspire, Educate, & Authorize
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 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.
Categories: UX & Research
by 5 years 10 months ago
Analyzing the API docs and DX Patterns in the Best Media Developer Portals 2
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.
Categories: UX & Research
User-focused Content Design for API Documentation
How to improve API documentation and learning experiences inspired by the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition. An overview of content and DX elements that help developers along their learning journey.
Categories: UX & Research
by 6 years 2 months ago
Analyzing the API docs and DX Patterns in the Best Media 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.
Categories: UX & Research
by 6 years 5 months ago
Analyzing the API docs and DX Patterns in the Best Telecommunication 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.
Categories: UX & Research
by 6 years 7 months ago
Analyzing the API Docs and DX Patterns in the Best FinTech Developer Portals
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.
Categories: UX & Research
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Editor's Choice
From interface folklore to machine mediated interactions
by Kristof van TommeCategories:
Business Insights
Support and Troubleshooting in Developer Portals
by Laura VassCategories:
Business Insights, Best Developer Portals (Devportal Awards)