Building Delight into API interactions

What are key moments for creating developer delight in interacting with your API? Some thoughts on good and great practices I've seen across the web and dev tools

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1. Building ✨Delight ✨ into API
   Interactions
   Bear Douglas
   @beardigsit
   DevRel Lead @SlackHQ
   

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2. Hi, I’m Bear!
   

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3. Do you remember your first Heroku
   deploy?
   

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4. From web.archive.org, Mar 30, 2010
   

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5. What does “delight” get you?
   

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6. 1. Adoption
   
   2. Success rate of integration
   
   3. Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)
   
   4. Willingness to promote (NPS)
   
   5. Retention over time
   Quality Affects
   

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7. Think about the user journey
   

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8. 1. Onboarding and setup
   
   2. Daily use
   
   3. When something goes wrong
   Key Moments For Delight
   

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9. Let’s start with daily use
   

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10. Consistency
    

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11. OpenAPI Magic
    

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12. 41 68 8:48 PM – 15 Jul 2014
    Ease and speed of use
    

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13. Now, let’s talk onboarding
    

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14. Controversy - the Fabric installer
    

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15. Can you make it one step easier?
    

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16. Can you reduce context
    switching?
    

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17. Delight in failure - really.
    

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18. Grace in failure
    

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19. The power of suggestion
    

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20. Support as DevX
    

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    Voice & tone
    

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22. Engage in real dialogue
    

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23. Surprise and delight
    

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24. Follow up & follow through
    

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25. Your team feels delight dividends
    

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26. 1. Adoption
    
    2. Success rate of integration
    
    3. Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)
    
    4. Willingness to promote (NPS)
    
    5. Retention over time
    Quality Affects
    

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27. Thanks!
    

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