Introducing Developer Products
A newsletter on software creation and the great products that enable it
How it started
At the beginning of last year I started sharing “Developer Experience Design Tips” across social media.
This was purely out of my own curiosity to capture these small but powerful ways to improving my own developer products. While engagement wasn’t explosive, I started to get positive feedback and met other people from the developer experience community. I took a hiatus writing due to starting a new position, but have since felt the urge to keep sharing new learnings I’m constantly coming across.
Today, I am excited to be starting once again.
Why am I writing this newsletter? Why now?
The way we create software is rapidly changing.
In 75 years, software creation has gone from punched cards to creating an application from a sketch. The lines are blurring between where design starts and development ends. The definition of a “developer” is shifting from a person that writes code to a multitude of different tasks. Nonetheless, today’s leading developer products all share commonality despite the quickly evolving landscape.
While there’s no silver bullet for solving the complex act of creating software, there are design patterns we can learn from to improve the developer experience of our own products. I have yet to find any sources that satisfies my curiosity on the topic, so I am filling the gap for myself and hope others find value in it as well.
This newsletter serves as my contribution to the community of developer product creators. Whether you are a product designer for an IDE, technical writer for developer documentation, PM for a CLI tool, or software developer looking for better tools, I hope my learnings can provide inspiration for how you add value to your developers’ lives.
Developer Products is a newsletter on software creation and the great products that enable it.
What can you expect from subscribing?
Starting January 2024, I’ll be posting every 2 weeks on Wednesdays. Subscribe if you’re interested in keeping up to date with the latest developer products and insights within the space of developer experience design.