Kansas City Data Professionals (August 2026)

​User-Centered API Product Design: Designing and Developing APIs for real users

Organizations often view creating an API as just an IT project and only focus on the technical aspects. But you will be more effective in the short and long term when you approach an API as a data product with users, a product lifecycle, and a revenue model.

In this presentation, you’ll learn how to apply product thinking to API design and deployment and see a demonstration of techniques including:

• ​defining an API lifecycle

• ​using design thinking

• ​creating user stories

• ​developing a financial model

​Ryan Day is the author of O’Reilly’s Hands-on APIs for AI and Data Science and instructor on the APIMasters training platform. He is an advanced data scientist in the financial services industry who previously led the API program for a federal agency. Ryan is a certified AWS solutions architect and member of the National Association of Business Economics. He has lived in Kansas City for a few decades, and his go-to BBQ dish is the pork sandwich at LC’s.
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Hands-On APIs for AI and Data Science
A hands-on API book that provides developers and data scientists expertise in developing in Python and FastAPI.