Bring Design Thinking to your API Lifecycle

Presented at Oracle Code One with Jakub Nesetril. How to bring Design Thinking into your API Development Process so you can deliver the best APIs possible

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1. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Confidential – Oracle Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted Bring Design Thinking to Your API Lifecycle Deliver the Best APIs Possible Jakub Nesetril & Emmanuel Paraskakis Oracle API Platform
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3. apiary + 470,440 APIs 5.5M+ API Consumers 365,802 API Designers
4. Here are 5 easy steps to the perfect API
5. There are no 5 easy steps!
6. What is an API?
7. in · ter · face /ˈin(t)ərˌfās/ verb 1. interact with (another system, person, organization, etc.)
 “his goal is to get people interfacing with each other” 2. COMPUTING
 connect with (another computer or piece of equipment) by an interface noun 1. a point where two systems, subjects, organizations, etc., meet and interact.
 “the interface between accountancy and the law” 2. COMPUTING
 a device or program enabling a user to communicate with a computer. COMPUTING a device or program enabling a user to communicate with a computer
8. API is UI to Data/Service User Experience Design Subjective Simplicity Conversion Rates Emotions Productivity Usability Studies Culturally Dependent Hackathons
9. You can try to do all of these and still fail
10. in · ter · face /ˈin(t)ərˌfās/ verb 1. interact with (another system, person, organization, etc.)
 “his goal is to get people interfacing with each other” 2. COMPUTING
 connect with (another computer or piece of equipment) by an interface noun 1. a point where two systems, subjects, organizations, etc., meet and interact.
 “the interface between accountancy and the law” 2. COMPUTING
 a device or program enabling a user to communicate with a computer. a point where two systems, subjects, organizations, etc., meet and interact
11. Provider Consumer Uptime Caching Security Maintenance Versioning Validation Can It Be Done? Debugging Support TTFHW Example Latency Java C++ Go Node Kotlin Swift React
12. Examples
16. Design Thinking Credit: Billy Loizou
17. Origins of Design Thinking • Creativity Techniques for Industrial Design in the 60’s • Commercialized by IDEO Agency in 80’s • Adopted in 2000’s for lean software development • Solve “Wicked” Problems
18. What is Design Thinking Define Ideate Prototype Test Empathize
19. API Design Thinking Define
 Start with API Description Ideate
 Share with API Consumers Prototype
 Mock Server Test
 Implement and Deploy Empathize Research Needs
20. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Confidential – Oracle Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted Thank you! 20 Tuesday • Code One: Bring Design Thinking to Your API Lifecycle [DEV6970] - Jakub, Emmanuel • OOW: Design, Create and Manage APIs for the Digital Economy [HOL6281] - Robert, Kiran, Emmanuel • Code One: The Seven Deadly Sins of API Design [DEV4921] - Luis Wednesday • Code One: Client-Driven APIs [DEV6276] - Mark • Code One: Accelerate your Development with Design-First API Management [HOL6945] - Robert, Jakub, Kiran, Emmanuel • Code One: Oracle Cloud Soaring: Live Demo of a Poly-Cloud Microservices Implementation [DEV4979] - Luis Thursday •OOW: Using Oracle Identity Cloud Service and Oracle API Platform Cloud Service at Co-op [CAS1385] - Luis •OOW: The future of API Management with Oracle API Platform & Apiary [PRM6971] - Robert, Jakub, Emmanuel •OOW: How Rabobank Is Using Oracle API Platform to Achieve API Success [CAS4501] - Robert