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Building an API Product

You're reading from   Building an API Product Design, implement, release, and maintain API products that meet user needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Last Updated in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837630448
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bruno Pedro Bruno Pedro
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Preface 1. Part 1:The API Product
2. Chapter 1: What Are APIs? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: API User Experience 4. Chapter 3: API-as-a-Product 5. Chapter 4: API Life Cycle 6. Part 2:Designing an API Product
7. Chapter 5: Elements of API Product Design 8. Chapter 6: Identifying an API Strategy 9. Chapter 7: Defining and Validating an API Design 10. Chapter 8: Specifying an API 11. Part 3:Implementing an API Product
12. Chapter 9: Development Techniques 13. Chapter 10: API Security 14. Chapter 11: API Testing 15. Chapter 12: API Quality Assurance 16. Part 4:Releasing an API Product
17. Chapter 13: Deploying the API 18. Chapter 14: Observing API Behavior 19. Chapter 15: Distribution Channels 20. Part 5:Maintaining an API Product
21. Chapter 16: User Support 22. Chapter 17: API Versioning 23. Chapter 18: Planning for API Retirement 24. Index 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

API friction

API friction is a concept I derived from David Pogue’s article on how technology products have increasingly become more challenging to use. In the Make Technology—and the World—Frictionless Scientific American article from 2012, Pogue states that every website where you need to fill in a form or spend time proving that you’re a human adds friction. My notion of API friction is a translation of what Pogue describes as product friction seen through the lenses of API users. Even though the result of both is dissatisfaction and a poor experience, the causes of each are not the same.

Previously, you learned about the factors that create a positive developer experience. A straightforward way of understanding API friction is to look at the negatives within developer experience and expand from there. All the challenges, obstacles, and difficulties that developers encounter are a part of API friction. The lower those obstacles are in the API hierarchy...

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