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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.
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 )
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.
March 27, 2019
Awesome software
Zeplin is being used by the Product, Design and Engineering teams to share designs between design and engineering. It solves the problem of easily sharing screen designs, as well as allowing engineers to "inspect" the screens so designers don't need to mark up every measurement on every screen. It also allows for easy share links to other departments.
- Sharing screen designs.
- Allowing engineers to inspect the elements on the designs.
- Runs as a web app or as a standalone desktop app.
- Requires each user to have a login.
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'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 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
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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.
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
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