Building world-class developer experiences (Go Time #287)
Today we’re talking with Alice Merrick & Andy Walker about building a world-class developer experience. You know it when you see it, things just feel right. But it’s more than just a pleasant UI or lipstick on a pig (which is a saying), it really matters.
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- 0:00 It's Go Time!
- 0:45 Introducing the guests
- 4:01 What is the dev experience
- 7:14 Multimodal experience
- 10:22 Change aversion
- 12:44 Measuring time to fluency
- 17:27 Fonts
- 23:28 Cookie consent forms
- 26:29 Interactive docs
- 32:17 In-browser playground
- 35:44 Short comings of the playground
- 40:51 Sponsor: Changelog News
- 42:54 Patterns we don't like
- 52:23 Unpopular opinions!
- 52:54 Alice's unpop
- 1:07:25 Andy's unpop
- 1:09:33 Kris' unpop
- 1:18:55 Outro (BONUS++)
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