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In our Devportal Design Guide series, you will read about common design patterns, get an insight into our project work related experiences, and learn how we tackle the design of a developer portal user interface.

Part 3: Overall design style

In our Devportal Design Guide series, you will read about common design patterns, get an insight into our project work related experiences, and learn how we tackle the design of a developer portal user interface.

Part 2: Developer portal layout and navigation

In our Developer Portal Design Guide series, you will read about common design patterns, get an insight into our project work related experiences, and learn how we tackle the design of a developer portal user interface.

Part 1: Developer portals on different devices & responsiveness

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?

In the second part of our series, you will discover analytics and why it’s needed for Docs As Code. This post is focusing on the functional basis of Quality Assurance.

How can API portals enhance user experience in general, and pay special attention to developer experience? How can design elements support usability and content? What makes a devportal, in overall, stand out against competitors?

We highlight the criteria that we think define the categories Best New DX Innovation, Best Design, and Best Overall Developer Portal and we include examples taken from last year’s nominated devportals.

In the first part of our new Docs As Code series, you will read about the philosophy behind the approach coupled with Quality Assurance, and how you can get started.

We would like to introduce a new tool called Rector that could speed up an upgrade process and can reduce upgrade costs. We run a proof of concept for the possible use cases in which Rector can be beneficial for Drupal developers - including but not limited to the automated update to Drupal 9.

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.

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.

At APIdays Paris 2018, Ronnie Mitra gave an insightful talk on how to improve API documentation and learning experiences, for which he gathered inspiration from the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition.

In this post, we’ll dive a little deeper into the whole topic and illustrate Ronnie’s conclusions by giving an overview of content and DX elements we imagine would help developers along their learning journey.

The goal of the DevPortal Awards is to recognize the best developer portals and learn from their practices. In our previous post we already shared the jury’s reasoning for choosing the winners, but of course we were thrilled to hear the opinion of the other side, the teams that made their portal an awarded success!