Zeplin

Score7.6 out of 10

66 Reviews and Ratings

What is Zeplin?

Zeplin, from the company of the same name, is a platform supporting collaboration in application development by engineers and designers by providing an API with popular collaboration, development and prototyping tools and creating a space where productions can be shared and reviewed.

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Versioning
Users can access the most up-to-date version of a document, track changes, and revert to older versions if needed.
Category average: 8.1
Notifications
Users can follow other users and/or join specific projects, electing to receive notifications when there are changes and updates.
Category average: 8.4
Search
Users can search for related materials across files, discussions threads, schedules, etc. using project keywords or tags.
Category average: 7.9

Access control
Users can control access to (shared) files, including different levels of access such as view-only or permission to edit.
Category average: 8.2
Document collaboration
Users can edit files and attach comments to files.
Category average: 8.3
Workflow Automation
Workflow automation is the ability to route work requests along an approval process automatically.
Category average: 7.8

Verified User

Team Lead in Product Management (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Zeplin to upload our final designs to be attached to jira tickets for dev handoff. I think it also accidentally gets used to organize release designs and be able to go back and find design iterations. The product managers will also use it to show and discuss designs for their tickets, as well as development using it to discuss when issues come up. Our UX architects will upload flows in the projects to be referenced as well. It also was used to hold our design system library for reference for a littler while.

Pros

Organization - tagging, filters, search, etc.
Easy to use - very little training needed
Integration - this is continuing to expand and help.

Cons

collaboration functionality
organization for large companies/teams
more admin capabilities

Return on Investment

Zeplin has helped keep handoffs clear and easily accessible
I like the cross collaboration capabilities with our partner teams
There is a learning curve for sure for new users

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Figma, Figma Dev Mode, Sketch and Miro

Other Software Used

Figma, Miro

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Zeplin as design tool for new UI of the web. As I tester I refers to design in Zeplin to verify with our webpage. By using this tool, Product owner, Designer, developer, tester are working aligned with product specification and requirements. Before this tool, everyone was not able to work in align.

Pros

Precise testing: Developers can inspect design elements CSS (spacing, fonts, colors, sizes) so that it can set as per the designer
Centralized components color palettes, text styles make it easier for teams to maintain consistency across whole project
Designers, developers, tester and product owner can add comments directly on designs.

Cons

Developer or QA can see static design but cannot see in animation like figma.
I feel like it lacks advance design management system
Role base control is not there

Return on Investment

It reduces design to developer bugs. Before it was so time consuming for tester to review design with designer and then raise issue to developer. 50% less issue than before.
It significiently increase our team collaration between different teams like stackholders, product owner, UI/UX, developers and testers. 40% time saves
Zeplin's component management and style guide help us to be consistent across whole product. 60% less inconsistency.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Figma

Other Software Used

Figma, Okta, Playwright, Notepad++, CoPilot, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, ChatGPT, GitHub, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Iterable, Twilio SendGrid, Twilio, Selenium

Verified User

Contributor in Research & Development (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

Code and design specifications help developers to quickly access colors and dimensions and also code snippets like CSS if required.
Commenting features are great for getting feedback and answering questions.

Cons

User interface design could use some better treatment.
Better tutorials to teach how to efficiently use the software.

Return on Investment

Better design and product quality due to perfect specifications delivery.
Immediate feedback or questions on designs using hotspots, questions, and comments.

Alternatives Considered

InVision

Other Software Used

Sketch

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used it as a main source of truth for design requirements for our clients, BAs, QAs, and developers. Important needs are to: -share assets for new UI items; -share precise sizes of lines, gaps, etc. for the purpose of accurate UI development; -asynchronous communication between different stakeholders regarding design.

Pros

Asynchronous communication regarding new designs
Share UI items' sizes, colors, gaps, etc.
Share assets
Versioning

Cons

I cannot pin the table of contents in web-application, it's annoying to expand it each time and scroll from the very top.
It logs me out very often. Smth like once a week I have to log in again and then refresh all opened Zeplin tabs. Too much
We cannot draw a flow, only single screen
We cannot create a dynamical prototype

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Figma

Other Software Used

Slack, Survicate, Tasks for Zendesk, MySQL Workbench, Trello

D Hendrik Mulyana View profile

Lead Designer in Information Technology at Sinbad (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Zeplin as the source of truth in the final design that I hand off to the developer team. Before utilizing Zeplin, my team used to face issues while handing over the design to the tech team. The main issue was that the tech team could not determine if the design was final or not. Even though we had marked the design as final, there were instances where our PM required some changes in the middle of development. This caused a delay in the delivery and made the dev team upset as it affected their timeline and deliverable.

Pros

We are able to organize the design with multi-group in every project
Zeplin is also able to create variants within one screen. It's a combination of screens or pages into one small group, based on the workflow or behaviour we set.
We can create style guide and connect it in to many projects
Now, zeplin is support variable from Figma latest features.

Cons

Flows in zeplin were actually good. but if we put many flows inside one canvas,. that make the app slow
I hope they can make boards based on the design group. to make loading faster. Imagine we have over 100+ screens, and we make all screens as design flow.
Sometimes the style guide is not connected to the project. especially for color intergation.

Return on Investment

Make design hand off faster
Cut middle issue during development phase
Centralize design hand off

Other Software Used

Figma, Slack, Jira Software

InVision

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Versioning

Notifications

Search

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Access control

Document collaboration

Workflow Automation

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