Impact of Micro Frontends on UX and Screen Design

In the previous chapter, we looked at some strategies and ideas for establishing processes around the governance of our micro frontend solution. For the UX, these processes rarely play a direct role. Here, an appealing screen design with a beautiful user experience is much more important. Unfortunately, most UX designers are not ready for micro frontends yet – quite often because they do not even know about the properties of micro frontends.

In this chapter, you will learn about the challenges and solutions of creating UX and screen designs for micro frontend systems. While micro frontends are very often technically driven, they impact the UX, too, as they demand a specification carefully tailored towards distributed development. One of the reasons for this is that a – quite often uncontrolled – growing application must be flexible with respect to its design in many areas that have previously been very well controlled...