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When you create rules, procedures in an organization, that doesn't mean that people will actually follow those. People will use those rules and procedures as their environment inside of which they act. Whatever rule you set up, don't ever expect people to follow: you always have to look for the unintended consequences. The goal of this article is to make you curious about: 1. Systems thinking 2. Complex Adaptive Systems 3. The role of APIs in Digital Transformation 4. The role of devportals in Digital Transformation

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?

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.

In this talk Kristof explains the differences between public and private APIs, introduce upstream developer experience, and explain how it can improve downstream DX. Introduce experience design (a.k.a. gamification) and Innersourcing (open sourcing practices behind the firewall) and describe how they could be used on internal developer portals.

What Is a Developer Portal? A trust signal for your API. A self-service hub. A dashboard for your API products. A list of endpoints is not enough. We provide you with an infographic to help explain.

In this series we will look into some of the best and most innovative practices developer portals from various industries use to anticipate on the possible expectations of developers.