Nowadays, it is increasingly easier to lose one’s self in dashboards, visualisation tools, nice graphics, and all sorts of button-like approaches to cloud computing. Since the last decade, UX work has improved tenfold; nevertheless, there is a side that usually goes unnoticed unless extremely necessary. That side belongs to application user interfaces (APIs).
An API constitutes a set of objects, methods and functions that allows the user to build scripts, or even big applications, to make certain things in the cloud happen that usually cannot be made to happen through a dashboard. This can be for various reasons; whether it is not yet being available to the end user; being very specific to the business, such as a competitive advantage; or being an automated portion that is not widely needed and may also be specific to the business.
