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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

Behaviors

After understanding the tools each persona uses and the capabilities you’ll want to offer, it’s time to learn about behaviors. Behaviors are what users do when they interact with a product. In your case, since you don’t have a full API product ready yet, you need to understand how users interact with their tools of choice and then extrapolate the information to how they’d use your API. To do that, you’ll need to ask users to show you, or explain, the steps they make using their tools to complete their tasks. Then, you overlap those steps with the capabilities you want to offer to get a list of the relevant steps. Those steps constitute the behaviors that you want to study deeper. You’ll see that different capabilities translate to a different number of steps. Your goal is to analyze each one of those steps and learn about its value in the overall task that the user is trying to complete. You want to know if a step can be easily replaced...

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