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by Laura Vass 2 years 7 months 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 2 years 7 months 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.
by Laura Vass 2 years 8 months ago

DevPortal Awards 2023 Jury Interview

In 2023, we worked with 13 extraordinary people in the jury panel, who put their hearts and souls into the evaluation. This article highlights some of their remarks which can be guidance for those who want to bring their developer portals and API programs to the next level.   
by Kristof Van Tomme 2 years 8 months 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.
Categories: Business Insights
by Kristof Van Tomme 2 years 9 months 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?
Categories: Business Insights
by Laura Vass 2 years 10 months ago

Accessible Features and Tools for Developer Portals - API The Docs 2023

What are the best practices that get you to an inclusive developer portal? One of the DevPortal Awards' main category bundles is Operational Excellence, which includes accessibility. In this article, we observe what were one of the most successful devportal’s approaches in the past years. We also recapped some best practices from the teams behind the Nationwide Partner Portal, Talkdesk Developer Documentation, and Spotify for Developers.     

Pronovix Field Notes

Observations from the Pronovix team on developer portals, technical documentation, architecture, UX, APIs, and the surrounding questions: AI-native workflows, business capabilities, buyable solutions, and operational reality.
 

 

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