Design First Is Better Than API First
We’ve all heard about ‘API First’ when it comes to building a new product or feature. It can allow your team to develop in parallel, enable expansion to multiple platforms, and create an opportunity for outside integration.
But creating a usable and maintainable API doesn’t start with opening your IDE. If you want to build an API that will meet the long term needs of your users (both internal and external), you start by designing the interface they’ll consume, not writing the code that powers that interface.
In this session, we’ll consider the benefits of a design-first approach, how that contrasts some of our natural instincts as web developers, and how design-first works even when you don’t do ‘API first’.