Episode 86
When it comes to creating a piece of software, we need to ask ourselves three important questions. Why are we doing this? What are we doing? How are we going to do that? Software developers tend to focus on the last one, since technology seems to be their domain. However, the question that should be considered first is why, as Simon Senek pointed out in his book. Let’s explore those three question in the context of designing web APIs.
In the second part of the article, we will take closer look at the “how” part from the user experience design point of view. The user will be a software developer consuming our API in this case.
Why?
For money, of course. Traditionally web applications earned money by serving their users data and functionality via some kind of front-end. The front-end was talking to the back-end and back-end was talking to the database. In order to satisfy growing needs, enrich user experience, and avoid reinventing the wheel, applications started to Read the rest of this entry »
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