Chapter 14: Impact on UX and Screen Design

In the previous chapter, we looked at some strategies and ideas for establishing processes around the governance of your micro frontend solution. For the end user experience, 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 get to know the challenges and solutions of creating user experiences and screen designs for micro frontend systems. While micro frontends are very often technically-driven, they impact the UX as much as they demand a sound implementation. One of the reasons for this is that a – quite often uncontrolled – growing application must be flexible in many areas that have previously been very well controlled inside a monolith.

In this chapter...