Part 2:Designing an API Product

This part is a comprehensive exploration of API product design, covering key stages such as ideation, strategy, definition, validation, and specification. It provides an in-depth analysis of the strategy stage, emphasizing stakeholder identification, business objectives, and understanding user personas. Additionally, this part guides you through defining and validating API design using techniques such as mocks, UI integration, and stakeholder iteration. It concludes with guidance on selecting an API architectural type based on behaviors, refining definitions, and creating machine-readable representations with governance rules.

In this part, you’ll find the following chapters:

• Chapter 5, Elements of API Product Design
• Chapter 6, Identifying an API Strategy
• Chapter 7, Defining and Validating an API Design
• Chapter 8, Specifying an API