[mbrevoort]

This post is more oriented to those building developer tools, APIs and platforms. You have to understand developers from a needs/value perspective in relation to the product you are building, and sometimes “developers” need to be described as multiple personas; the developer at your customer who is extending your product is different than the ISV/3rd party building for your marketplace. There are usually tensions in the dynamics of the product between developers and other user personas in terms of their needs, tolerance to complexity, motivation and desired outcomes.

In addition the point is also to be careful with generalizations like “What most people mean when they talk about the tension between DX and UX…” I generally agree with Malte but not in every circumstance. If you are a developer that primarily is the consumer of dev tools others produce, it’s common that you’ll only see things from that perspective, but the dynamics are more complex.