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Plugin User Experience (UX)

Edit pageLast modified: 04 December 2024

User Experience (UX) is a term describing the experience users feel when using a product. It covers not only aspects like visual presentation, performance, stability, or ease of use, but anything that affects the user's satisfaction. It's an overall impression of using a product that strongly indicates whether a user likes it or not.

IntelliJ Platform-based plugins are products, and providing a good UX is very important for retaining users and making them recommend your plugin to others. A bad plugin UX can negatively impact the user base, as users tend to abandon plugins that bring frustration, e.g., by instability, poor performance, or complexity.

The following sections explain the selected plugin UX areas.