The Art of Effective API Design
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Argues that API design needs UX processes — need finding, ideation, testing and iteration — and demonstrates a lightweight tool that creates a domain vocabulary, sketches resources and flows, and export to API Blueprint or WADL for prototypes. Recommends doing 10 to 15 rapid sketches at low fidelity, then a few low‑ and high‑fidelity prototypes before implementation. Suggests concrete techniques: empathy interviews, participatory design, writing client code and watching developers use the API to validate choices.
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