Designing a plugin experience
These guidelines will help you define the best user experience for your plugin. As you create a plugin, consider different UX patterns and UI components based on your user’s workflow and the plugin action.
Plugins can interact with a user’s experience at different levels, for example, some plugins in some use cases won’t render an interface, and some will include actions that need an interface.
Designing a plugin#
Learn more about the types interfaces available to plugins.
| Plugins panel | Plugins dialog |
|---|---|
| non-blocking UI: This interface is best used when the user should have access to the canvas while using the plugin. | blocking UI: This interface is best used when the plugin needs to run an action and the user shouldn’t modify or change selection of objects on the canvas. |
UX patterns#
User experience patterns highlight UX requirements and best practices, as well as provide guidance on how to interact with your plugin users within Adobe.
User interface#
The user interface section will have information on UXP Spectrum components you can use to build your plugin interface.
View user interface components
