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Extensible UI Frameworks for Web Apps: Design, Product, and Architectural principles to open your web app's interface for integrations
As APIs become an expected feature of software businesses, the most popular web services extend their developer platforms beyond external API, allowing partners to integrate right into their interfaces. With Shopify Apps, Google Workspace and Box connecting tools like Adobe Creative Cloud, and Trello Power-Ups, customizable user interfaces powered by third parties is proving itself to be a great way to improve your product experiences and grow your business by making your service flexible and more fitting to the unique needs of your customers.
The story is compelling, and the opportunities for growth are demonstrated in the success of many large software companies. But there are also many examples of struggles, and failed attempts at this type of platform over the past 20 years.
The good news is that we've seen more success through companies that figured out how to make these platforms work, and learned from years of observing these platforms struggle and glow, to determine the dos and don'ts of managing them. Let us evaluate what has worked and hasn’t in the world of these extensible platforms, on a Product, Design, and Architectural level, to create a growing ecosystem for your own product.
The story is compelling, and the opportunities for growth are demonstrated in the success of many large software companies. But there are also many examples of struggles, and failed attempts at this type of platform over the past 20 years.
The good news is that we've seen more success through companies that figured out how to make these platforms work, and learned from years of observing these platforms struggle and glow, to determine the dos and don'ts of managing them. Let us evaluate what has worked and hasn’t in the world of these extensible platforms, on a Product, Design, and Architectural level, to create a growing ecosystem for your own product.
79 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 29, 2025
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