Nazarah
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7 years ago 
Nazia Hasan
Nationality: Bangladesh Age: 25 Expertise: Doing her Masters Thesis on Human Centered Design (UX Major) from TTY, Finland; Android Designing Occupation: UX Designer at "XYZ" startup Hobbies: Cooking, MakeUp and Reading
Preference:
- Likes to learn about how to create an API, to use it without not getting too deep in technical details.
- Likes to see easy, step-by-step tutorials/documentations/video when learning technology or platform
- Prefers to have a ready to use, default configuration when want to start using a new platform
- Is sensitive about aesthetics, usability of a platform and how she feels about using it
Scenario: As an UX designer, Nazia feels that she should atleast have minimal knowledge about how API works before she can start designing Applications. She starts by creating a Swagger parser to make an API based on design. She asks around her colleagues if someone knows about it but unfortunately doesn't get much help. She googles "How to create swagger documentation"
She checks a result at swagger.io pointing at "Getting-started", but soon realizes this is not an actual tutorial. She checks another result containing an article about writing an open-API using swagger ad finds out this is a tutorial she is looking for. She starts reading it, but realizes that its actually more complicated than she thought so. Still she creates a new file with Swagger editor with some basic information and an end point already existing in her comapny's app.
As Nazia now has a simple but functional Swagger API, she looks for a mean to host the file. She finds out SwaggerHub and Github. But she realizes SwaggerHub is really complex to her and GitHub doesn't render a swagger file. She checks the google results and sees API hosting platforms like IBM, Amazon and a relatively new one called APInf. She wants to use IBM or Amazon 1st, but realizes she needs to start paying for it. so she gives a try to APInf, although she is skeptical about how trust worthy the Platform is.
Nazia hosts her swagger file and shares it with her colleagues. She also becomes curious about what APInf offers. She start thinking that as an API owner what might be her responsibilities to manage her API and starts looking for tutorials across the platform. She checks out 1-2 public API and but doesn't see that much of tutorial materials. She comes across a Dashboard menu but sees only a message prompting her to enable a proxy for her API. She doesn't have a clue how a proxy works and is stuck there.
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