UI/UX in IntelliJ IDEA
summary
Design team grows from one to eight and applies concrete changes: rename refactoring adds option icons in editor inlay with a new shortcut to avoid breaking tab habit; extract method drops the large modal, lets users edit the new method name inline and exposes extra checks under a gear with a one‑time tooltip to jump to the declaration; startup flow shrinks from seven dialogs to three by merging welcome and customization and auto‑importing settings; plugin manager iterates from card view back to a left‑list/right‑detail layout after a UX study.
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chapters (31)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:10Olgas introduction
- 3:48Design goals
- 5:13Rename refactoring
- 6:45Option UI
- 8:40Option Popup
- 10:20Extract Method
- 12:51Code Editing
- 13:45Initial Start
- 17:05Improved UI
- 18:26Customization Wizard
- 23:02Actions
- 23:31User feedback
- 24:12Plugin settings UI
- 26:01Brains plugins
- 26:55Plugin cards
- 28:45Rework
- 31:56Questions
- 35:01Keyboard Shortcuts
- 35:31Muscle Memory
- 36:08New commit window
- 38:13Keeping existing features
- 42:36Accessibility
- 44:26Localization
- 46:36Simplified debugger
- 47:38Menus
- 48:54Icons
- 51:19Biggest challenge
- 53:18Problems
- 55:03Search everywhere
- 56:03Challenges
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