Summary

By now, you understand the ideation, strategy, definition, validation, and specification API design steps. You know what each step is and how it influences the outcome of your API product. You also know how to execute the steps and connect them cohesively.

You began this chapter by learning how to expand a vision of an API product into actionable ideas. You learned how to use ideation techniques to involve stakeholders in designing your API. You also learned how to identify possible solutions from the ideas you generated. Following the ideation step, you learned how to define a strategy by identifying what you want to build, business opportunities, alignment to reach a goal, evidence of business value, and implementation challenges. You learned about the integrated product concept and how using it can position your API product for success. You also learned how JTBDs, behaviors, challenges, benefits, and tools can be used to define your API’s features, capabilities...