workshops · Iterative lab sessions

Developer Portal Lab

Prototype navigation, templates, and golden paths so internal customers actually use your portal.

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Beyond branding exercises, we prototype task flows for onboarding service owners, publishing APIs, and requesting environments. The emphasis is on reducing cognitive load for engineers rotating across teams.

Capabilities inside this path

  • Persona interviews with two squads and one platform steward
  • Clickable wireframes for top three tasks
  • Template drafts for service README and runbooks
  • Search and taxonomy critique with suggested facets
  • Measurement plan for portal adoption
  • Handoff notes for your design and internal tools teams

Outcomes teams measure

  • Concrete IA improvements grounded in observed friction
  • Starter templates teams can copy without asking platform for permission
  • Metrics that prove whether changes matter
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Noah Kim

Technical writer and former DX engineer who cares about sentences as much as YAML.

Duration: 12+ weeks · Indicative fee: KRW 6,200,000

Questions teams asked mid-flight

No. We prototype flows and templates; engineering teams still implement production systems.

Recent participant reflections

Developer Portal Lab wireframes mocked the environment request flow we ship today. Search facets critique came with examples from our own messy catalog.

Taeyeon Oh · Platform PM · Fintech product team · 5/5

Measurement plan for portal adoption was optimistic on week one—by week eight numbers matched reality.

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