Ep 11. The Art of the Data Platform: Reducing Cognitive Load and Driving Adoption - The Data Playbook Podcast with Kris Peeters & Jelle De Vleminck

🎙️ In this episode, host Kris Peeters talks with Jelle De Vleminck, consultant at Dataminded, about what it really takes to build a data platform that people actually want to use.

Together, they explore:

• What separates a platform from just “a bunch of tools”
• How to reduce cognitive load for developers
• The 5 biggest mistakes in platform design
• Why adoption matters more than features
• How data contracts, products, and cloud IDEs improve usability
• Why enabling your users beats controlling them

If you’re building internal tooling or scaling data across teams, this episode is packed with practical insight.

🌐 More at www.dataminded.com