Greg Brimble
Cloudflare
Using interactive documentation to accelerate time-to-first-dopamine
About the Talk
Reducing time to first deployment is the most valuable metric to optimize for when designing for users. We’ll show how you can build fully interactive learning experiences by instantly deploying new apps from within your docs. With platforms like Cloudflare, you can jumpstart the DX of your product.
With a plethora of options to choose from, building a really good developer product is only half the battle. We often forget that to get active developers, we need to consider that “time to first dopamine” — that first “aha” moment. Documentation is a powerful way to describe the possibilities of what a product can do, but how can we demonstrate this to users as early as possible, without requiring them to jump through hoops like environment set-up and authentication? Greg Brimble (Systems Engineer), joined by Nevi Shah (Product Manager), both work in the Emerging Technologies and Incubation department of Cloudflare with this idea at the center of everything they do. Their team is focused on building serverless products with the ultimate goal of providing a seamless end-to-end developer experience. This talk will demonstrate how to integrate an interactive onboarding experience within product documentation that helps to accelerate developer success and productivity when using a new product. We’ll present a framework (built on Cloudflare Pages and Workers for Platforms) that allows developers to learn while they deploy, enabling them to immediately recognize the potential value and technical possibilities of a product as early as possible.
About the Speaker
Greg Brimble (Systems Engineer), joined by Nevi Shah (Product Manager), both work in the Emerging Technologies and Incubation department of Cloudflare with this idea at the center of everything they do. Their team is focused on building serverless products with the ultimate goal of providing a seamless end-to-end developer experience.
