Developer experience teams have their own vocabulary. Practise the collocations used when discussing tooling, onboarding, and workflow improvements.
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Fill in: 'The DX team's top priority this quarter is to ___ friction in the local development setup.'
We 'reduce friction' — 'reduce friction' is the standard DX collocation for minimising obstacles in the development workflow. 'Remove friction' implies full elimination; 'decrease' and 'lower' are more quantitative and less idiomatic in experience-design language.
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Fill in: 'We revised the developer handbook and recorded onboarding videos to ___ onboarding for new hires.'
We 'streamline onboarding' — 'streamline' collocates with processes to mean making them more efficient and less wasteful. 'Improve onboarding' is generic; 'speed up onboarding' focuses only on time; 'fix onboarding' implies it was broken rather than merely suboptimal.
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Fill in: 'Better CLI tooling ___ the ergonomics of our build system significantly.'
We 'improve ergonomics' — 'ergonomics' in a DX context refers to how comfortable and intuitive a tool is to use, and 'improve' is its standard collocation. 'Enhance ergonomics' is also acceptable; 'upgrade ergonomics' is not idiomatic; 'increase ergonomics' is a grammatical mismatch.
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Fill in: 'The new GitHub template ___ the barrier to entry for contributors who want to open their first PR.'
We 'lower the barrier to entry' — 'lower' is the fixed collocation in this idiom, meaning to make something easier to start. 'Reduces the barrier' is grammatically fine but less idiomatic; 'decreases' is quantitative; 'removes the barrier' implies full elimination.
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Fill in: 'We run quarterly SPACE surveys to ___ developer satisfaction and identify improvement areas.'
We 'measure developer satisfaction' — 'measure' is the standard research and DX collocation for quantifying satisfaction through surveys or metrics. 'Track developer satisfaction' implies longitudinal monitoring; 'assess' is qualitative; 'gauge' is informal and typically used for estimates.