What is API User Experience?
API User Experience, or API UX, is a person's perceptions of the utility, ease of use and efficiency of an application API that result from its direct or indirect use. API UX covers two major types of...
View ArticleIs end-user API UX a Utopia?
I have been working as a User Experience designer at CloudWork for the past 6 months and I’ve faced many challenges and opportunities while building an easy to use product that automates business...
View Article2 steps to better API Error Codes
One of the biggest difficulties developers can have when writing code that talks with an API is dealing with errors and exceptions, and translating those errors into something meaningful for their...
View ArticleHow to Expose User Information
If you provide the right amount of information, applications built on top of your API will be able to offer a better service to your users. Your final user will have a better experience and that might...
View ArticleImplementing API Content Negotiation
Content Negotiation servers two purposes: making it possible to have different versions of the same response, and letting clients specify which version they want to receive. Usually, this technique is...
View ArticlePivotal Tracker launches new API in public beta
Pivotal Tracker just announced the availability of their API V5 in public beta, starting August 16, 2013. The launch is justified because the application itself has run against the new API version for...
View ArticleTictail API launch focuses on UX
Tictail, a Swedish e-commerce platform that manages over 24,000 stores spread across 110 different countries, launched their API on September 16, 2013. Because Tictail’s main focus is simplicity of...
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