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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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- Supported: Workflow Automation
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- Supported: Integrates with other Project Management Tools
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| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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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.
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.
Zeplin acts as a bridge between the design teams and developer teams to assist in the handoff of the finished design artifacts. Once the design is done, it is exported to Zeplin and Zeplin parses the screens to enable assets and delivers specifications to the developers. This relieves designers to manually deliver the assets in multiple folders or files and explain those to the dev team. Zeplin saves a ton of time in manual work and makes it easy to update the assets when the design changes.
- 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.
- User interface design could use some better treatment.
- Better tutorials to teach how to efficiently use the software.
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
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.
May 15, 2019
Zeplin: Worth the Price
We use Zeplin to share design assets with developers. It is used across the organization. We use this to reduce the communication gap between the teams, specially design and developers. This also lets you get feedback from other stakeholders by sharing the board with them and they can comment there. Before Zeplin, designers had to create PDFs with design specs and then share the design assets separately in a drive or email. If any asset was missing or if any clarification was needed, there was a long chain of emails, now it is very smooth and quick, happens on Zeplin and both the design and dev teams are happy. As a product manager, this has immensely helped me to get feedback, improve the process and make people accountable.
- Its integration with Sketch is great, it just completes everything. You create the design and in one click it is there on the Zeplin board.
- The notes and comments help to be more precise with questions and clarify on the Zeplin board itself.
- One of the best things I liked about Zeplin was its simplicity, anyone who doesn't even come from a design, tech or product background can understand the product in just a couple of minutes.
- Zeplin still is not on par with other tools like Figma, which help to transfer the code from design. It is the next step in machine learning.
- Zeplin doesn't have a prototyping feature, which will be great for developers to understand the motions and animations.
- Zeplin currently doesn't have version history, which would be good to have, since if a design is updated by the designer the developer could see what was updated.
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
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.
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