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by Szabina Oláh 1 week ago

Developer portals: your undercover brand ambassadors

Developer portals can be powerful extensions of your brand by channeling your message in a genuine and organic way. In this article, we explore the benefits of a custom branded developer portal that combines visually appealing design with robust functionality.
by Kristof van Tomme 1 month 1 week ago

Interface discovery as a prerequisite for effective communication and accessibility

Interface discovery is a search and guess game that we’ve all learned out of necessity. Because of a lack of strategic perspective, different interface types keep being published in their historically evolved discovery mechanisms (for example address, phone number, social media, app, support/docs sites and so on). As communication channels proliferate this is causing unnecessary friction. In this article we explain why interface ambiguity becomes especially troublesome if you look at it from an accessibility perspective.
by Szabina Oláh 1 month 3 weeks ago

Enhance Discoverability for Business Users - Developer Portal Best Practices

Catering to a wide range of audiences can enhance the discoverability of your API affordances. In this article, we draw inspiration from the exemplary teams at Deutsche Börse Group, UP42, Codat, Cloudinary, NewDay, Nexio, and Masdr, who highlight the importance of addressing business users on developer portals.
by Kristof van Tomme 2 months 2 weeks ago

APIs are interface utilities

This article is part of APIFutures, a distributed, creator-led effort to identify the most significant opportunity and/or the greatest challenge facing the API community in 2024.
by Kristof van Tomme 3 months 3 weeks ago

The open interface web: declaring interfaces for an open & accessible world

LLMs are about to drastically increase the volume and apparent quality of automatically generated messages. Some communication will be generated on behalf of a valuable customer or partner, but a lot will be low value attempts from third parties that are exploring opportunities at the expense of their receivers. How will we deal with all these - at first sight - ‘legitimate’ interactions?
by Swapnil Sapar 5 months 1 week ago

Unlocking Developer Success: Pragmatic API Governance in Action

How can we assess API health by addressing API visibility and transparency? How is it possible to achieve API governance at the enterprise scale? Is it feasible to drive positive change and enhance enterprise API production by prioritizing transparency, actionable feedback, and recovery paths?  

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by Mónika Mikházi
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