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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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April 27, 2021
Handoff+, yes!
Zeplin is used by several departments across our organization - our product, design, and engineering teams all make use of the software. It allows the product and design teams to do their work and then have a clean handoff to engineering to build out the feature with everything that they need.
- Collaboration tools.
- Design notes/documentation for engineers.
- Simple prototyping.
- Clickable actions to navigate prototypes naturally.
- Subscription model.
August 19, 2020
Zeplin is an awesome tool for handoff focused production
We use Zeplin to help us implement mockups for Users Interfaces in our games and on our websites. It is used mainly for the first prototypes in a simple way, focused on the handoff of the design side that can be picked by programmers after. It helps us iterate quickly on those ideas and design good UI and UX.
- Very nice design and user interface
- Its styles components and color palettes organization is great
- It has nice tools to iterate on web designs quickly
- It would be better if it has a dedicated web application
- It's not the easiest tool to learn and start working with
- It would be awesome if it had more features turning it into an all-around tool for mockups and prototypes
August 02, 2019
As Pretty as it gets!
We use Zeplin between two departments ( content and tech ). For the tech team to show off their best work, we need to know what the desired results are to be displayed. With Zeplin, the tech team can collaborate with the content team via notes directly on the mock-up. This is ideal for questions and answers that will not get lost in the shuffle, but rather are pinned directly where the question stems from ( point on the design ). This allows for very minimal miscommunication.
- Allows note to be dropped and pinned directly on the design where the question stems from
- Removes questions about exact styles with the CSS box
- Loads extremely fast with the Windows App on a PC
- Encourages collaboration between team members and departments
- In the UI, the menu is a bit misleading by not showing all the pages available within a single project
- Offline notifications are missing ( a must when the app is closed )
February 10, 2019
Super slick hand off between design and product teams
We use Zeplin to manage the handoff between product, design, and marketing. We used to struggle with unruly file systems and competing copies, missing assets, and disorganized product launches. Now, our designers can establish projects and guidelines for asset use, passing off product shots, and more.
- Zeplin makes it super simple to share locked design assets across the organization, whether you're on the product, marketing, or support team.
- Zeplin's integration with Sketch streamlines design.
- Project organization is a breeze.
- The user interface isn't as intuitive for those just beginning to learn the system—something simple, like leaving a comment, isn't always clear as it could be.
- We do wish Zeplin integrated with more of our other tools.
- Prototyping is pretty limited.
We've been using Zeplin for a few years and it has proven to be one of the best tools for User Experience and User Interface Design. Furthermore it helps us, while working as developer partners for agencies, to better understand layouts provided and be more assertive since it offers ways to export assets and even CSS code to better specify little details like colors, font size, margins and much more.
- Has both a web app and desktop app
- Great integration with Sketch
- If you're developing the front-end, it really helps providing assets and layout specs
- The web application doesn't offer ways to create new projects like InVision or Marvel
- It could have a prototyping tool to navigate between screens
- The mobile website doesn't work as well as it should
We use Zeplin for collaboration between our designer and developers. Both of my companies have built very design/user experience centric products and we set a high bar for the implementation of the designs we create. However, developers are generally poor implementers of design and don't have a very good eye for design. Zeplin solves this problem and since we've started using it we've saved a lot of back and forth between developers and designers.
- Provides dimensions across iOS, Android and Web which saves developers from a lot of guess and check when implementing designs
- Allows for easy download of digital design assets for developers to easily organize and implement
- Great user experience in terms of the product itself and a great value for your money
- Automatically generates CSS for web designs which is AMAZING!
- The uploading and syncing of assets is great for sketch and photoshop but we use illustrator and that can be cumbersome/tedious at times.
- There are certain elements that have been a bit confusing to navigate at times, but for the most part, it's pretty user-friendly
- More integrations
December 15, 2018
Great tool for designers and developers!
Zeplin is used by our designers and developers, as well as by product managers. It's a great tool to share design mock-ups or final UI designs and easily communicate with comments and notes on each of the files. It's pretty nice that you can directly import files from Sketch to Zeplin. Developers also love Zeplin, as it gives them the ability to see the measurements of pixels between components, select and see properties for each of the components, CSS code, etc.
- Great way to import files directly from Sketch to Zeplin
- Shows properties for all the components and elements and makes the lives of developers much easier
- Allows developers to comment and write notes on the files
- Has nice design and overall UX
- Sometimes updates from Sketch don't work as fast as expected, but overall we are very satisfied
December 13, 2018
Great software - Definitely not the Hindenburg!
Zeplin solves the problem of product/design teams interfacing with engineering. It provides a clear and easy way for engineers and designers to share, discuss, and question designs in a very user-friendly and easy-to-manage way. Both teams heavily enjoy using Zeplin versus a million PDF files being sent around the org. Zeplin saves us time, headache, and mistakes due to miscommunication.
- Sharing
- Collaboration
- Discussion/Commenting
- Relies on artboards
- Photoshop plugin issues sometimes
- Updates too frequently