the art of api design - ronnie mitra, director of api design, api academy at nordic apis
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Ronnie Mitra, Director of API Design for the CA API Academy team spoke about "The Art of Effective API Design" at Nordic APIsTRANSCRIPT
Ronnie Mitra Director of API Design
CA API Academy @mitraman
The Art of Effective API Design
Design
“firmitas, utilitas, venustas” Solid, useful, beautiful
User Experience
Peter Morville’s UX Honeycomb
Faith in Standards
Faith in Experts
Faith in Process?
Design Processes
Need Finding / User Research
Ideation
Testing & Validation
API Client
development platform
API Tools
Need Finding / User Research
Ideation
Testing & Validation
Interviews
Need Finding / User Research
Interviews Participatory Design Persona Development
Testing & Validation
Write Client Code Observation Data Collection
Need Finding / User Research
Ideation?
Testing & Validation
Bill Buxton on Sketching:
Quick Timely Inexpensive Disposable PlenEful Clear Vocabulary DisEnct Gesture Minimal Detail
Sketch
User parEcipaEon IteraEons
Low-‐Fidelity Prototype
High-‐Fidelity Prototype
Implementation
API Sketching Today: • Paper • Whiteboard • Coding • Tooling
The Experiment:
Rápido A tool for sketching APIs
• Go beyond being useful
• Design for people
• Remember that good design is affordable
3 Keys to API Design
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