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The author describes the Lusztig's \(\mathbb{A}\)-form technique of quantum deformations of Lie algebras. It was introduced by \textit{G. Lusztig} [Adv. Math. 70, 237-249 (1992; Zbl 0651.17007)] to determine that irreducible integrable highest weight modules for symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras `admit quantum deformation' (i.e. there is an exact correspondence between the modules for the quantum and original algebras, which preserves the character of the module). Later it was refined in a number of papers dealing with various classes of representations, however, it was not used in a canonical way, which means that for different classes of modules different technical arguments were required. The goal of the paper is to clarify the procedure in general to give the reader the overall picture, stressing the attention on potential difficulties without technical details of the specific cases. This general procedure can be sketched as follows: first one should define the quantum group and construct the candidate quantum modules with `right' properties, then one should define (guess) a suitable ring \(\mathbb{A}\) and construct \(\mathbb{A}\)-forms of the group and the candidate quantum modules and finally one has to pass to the classical limit obtaining classical modules and to prove that they are the target ones. As a guide, the author uses the example of Verma and imaginary Verma modules for the affine Kac-Moody algebra \(A_1^{(1)}\). Known quantum deformation results are summarized in the end of the paper, which also contains a relatively extensive bibliography on the subject. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0932.00043].