Steven Clarke is a usability engineer at Microsoft and wrote an article for Dr. Dobb’s called “Measuring API Usability.” In this article he talks about applying usability to API development and how it can help to produce better interfaces. He also presents the cognitive dimensions framework, which offers 12 factors that impact the way a developer works with an API. Steven also talks about how to map these cognitive dimensions to different developer profiles, such as opportunistic, pragmatic, and systematic engineers.
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