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Building world-class developer experiences

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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Timestamps:

(00:00) - It's Go Time!
(00:45) - Introducing the guests
(04:01) - What is the dev experience
(07:14) - 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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