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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 …
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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…
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Zeplin helps teams deliver on the promise of design. Its design delivery platform connects design to development and provides an organized workspace to publish designs where product teams can collaborate to ship beautiful products together.
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Zeplin is a versatile tool that facilitates collaboration between designers and developers, streamlining the design handoff process and minimizing miscommunication. With Zeplin, designers can import screens from software like Photoshop or SketchUp, attach assets, and create convenient diagrams. This enables them to set a high bar for implementing designs and saves time on back-and-forth communication. For developers, Zeplin offers the ability to better understand layouts and be more assertive by providing ways to export assets and CSS code. It captures CSS styles and optimizes their work, making it practical for prototypes and the layout of web applications. Additionally, Zeplin allows for easy sharing of design specs with clients and provides a succinct set of features for viewing, sharing, downloading, and discussing design assets. It acts as a bridge between design and development teams by reducing the communication gap and enabling feedback from stakeholders through shared boards. Its user-friendly interface makes it easy for engineers and designers to share, discuss, and question designs, ultimately saving time, headache, and mistakes due to miscommunication. Overall, Zeplin is widely used by digital product teams, UX designers, and other departments to collaborate effectively on projects.
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
February 18, 2020
Zeplin - collaboration and user management at a glance.
Zeplin is being used between several departments and in collaboration with clients. It's primarily a valuable piece of software for our design department who can share and create designs and style guides with our project managers. It's a great tool to work alongside Adobe and Sketch etc. The collaboration between the apartments is the key to success here. The rest of this review will be written from an IT point of view.
- Collaboration between departments
- Excellent user management
- Better definition of roles within user management.
- Better options for versioning.
July 20, 2019
Zeplin: A Design-to-Development Lifesaver!
In my UX design contract work with several organizations, Zeplin is being used by me and other designers to efficiently share designs with other teams, particularly development teams. Zeplin makes it incredibly easy to do this, as it enables us to share these designs without spending a ton of time marking up each screen with every single design specification. Developers can independently inspect elements to view these specs, avoiding the all-too-common issue of having to go back and forth over Slack or email to clarify points of confusion, solve issues around missing assets, or fix typos. Zeplin has also proven to be very helpful in eliciting feedback from other stakeholders, as it’s very easy to export designs for internal and external people to review and provide feedback on.
- Ease in automatically building design style guides, saving time that might be spent on building style guides in another tool (such as InDesign).
- Users can use Mac, PC, or web versions of this app to collaborate on a single project, enabling us to work with a wider pool of contractors.
- Accelerates the design-to-development workflow, as it’s very easy to import Sketch or Photoshop files through plug-ins, and HTML/CSS codes are automatically created based on designs.
- Provides cross-platform specifications for web, iOS, and Android, which can save developers time in figuring out specifications beyond the “main platform" on their own.
- The tool is rather expensive given that it doesn’t have a ton of functionalities.
- The tool is a little complex, which requires us to spend significant onboarding time on this product for new team members.
- The tool can add more styles than necessary, adding the extra step of double-checking each line of the code to ensure that nothing new has popped up that might affect development.
May 16, 2019
Beautifully seamless design hand offs
Zeplin is used by our product, UX design, and content strategy teams to hand off designs to the dev teams. Zeplin allows our dev teams to pull specs, assets, and code snippets directly from the design itself, which makes the cross-department collaboration and communication so easy. Zeplin contains our design system which keeps our UI components consistent across the product.
- Beautiful, clean, easy to use, easy to navigate interface. Zeplin looks great and feels intuitive from the start.
- Zeplin is especially fantastic as a collaboration tool. You can easily annotate designs with unobtrusive comments, allowing teams to ask questions and make suggestions easily.
- Zeplin keeps our designs very consistent. For example, it remembers colors and font styles and makes it easy to build a style guide.
- Our design team uses Sketch to make mockups, which must then be imported to Zeplin. Basically, it adds another tool to the chain and more accounts to keep track of.
- The plans are a bit expensive. The product ultimately feels worth it, but I think it could be priced more cheaply.
- Internal navigation is sometimes difficult to figure out (e.g., the order of different screens and overall user flow).
December 27, 2018
Zeplin: The tool of the designer who is a programmer
Zeplin is a very practical tool for prototypes and layout of web applications. It is very interesting for frontend development because it allows you to capture the CSS styles of the screens. This is a very comfortable job since you can optimize the work of frontend In terms of interface design. You can also import screens from Photoshop or SketchUp. Facilitating this task for the designer, you can also attach assets so that it is convenient for the developer to have all the references when it comes to diagramming.
- You can get the CSS style code
- You can import files from Photoshop and SketchUp
- You can not define internal navigation by linking the screens
We use Zeplin to share design specs with our clients and discuss UI changes. Zeplin provides us with a succinct but great set of features that lets us see, share, download and discuss design assets.
- Share design screens: being the core of the service, uploading design screens from design software is as easy as it gets
- Share and see design specs: Zeplin offers a really handy way to share design specs such as colors, fonts, CSS directives and rules
- Prototype navigation: Zeplin offers navigation between screen using prototype navigation where you can link a screen and draw on top of the screen's elements. However, this is a very basic feature compared to similar apps and services. For instance, you can not assign transition effects or timeouts for transitions.
December 18, 2018
Zeplin Review
It is being used by our digital product team. Our design team delivers specs for new website and App features to the developers using Zeplin.
- Zeplin provides detailed specifications, allowing for the guesswork to be taken out of developer's work.
- Zeplin allows for files to easily be shared via links.
- Zeplin's allows for tagging of files which makes organizing very easy.
- Slack integration is very helpful!
- There is no way to make comments on files within Zeplin (or at least no clearly visible way).
- The UI is not the most intuitive.