In the first part of this workshop, we learn about designing the right API, so it is actually useful for the stakeholders. We will work with identifying the users of the API, what qualities they value in an API, the outside-in design approach, and the API-as-a-product design philosophy.

After having established how we design the right API, we focus on designing APIs in the right way during the second part of the workshop. We study the API lifecycle, how it relates to API design, and how we can iterate from a good API design to a great API design. We then focus on intentional API design, which is based on the simple fact, that designed artifacts such as APIs embody all decisions that went into making them, whether these design decisions were intentional and deliberate or unintentional and haphazard. In this workshop we will show, how to make every aspect of API design more “intentional”, something we consciously design, choose and decide. We focus on RESTful API design, however, the overarching intentional API design framework with Frontend API Design, Backend API Design, and API Design for non-functionals can be used for other styles of APIs as well.