Stripe deliberately designed its APIs to abstract away the complexity of payment processing and reduce integration effort for developers.

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY User eXperience Is Not a Design Artifact

"Stripe deliberately designed its APIs to abstract away the complexity of payment processing and reduce integration effort for developers."

Stripe's API history describes abstraction of payment complexity as a central design objective and explains how its developer experience evolved around making complex payment integrations easier to understand and implement.

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Source title Stripe’s payments APIs: The first 10 years

Source authors Michelle Bu

Source year 2020

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