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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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What is Zeplin?
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: Task Management
- Supported: Workflow Automation
- Supported: Mobile Access
- Supported: Tagging
- Supported: Search
- Supported: Integrates with other Project Management Tools
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- Supported: Notifications
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- Supported: Shared folders
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- Supported: Advanced security features
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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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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April 27, 2021
Handoff+, yes!
We went without a tool like Zeplin for a long time, but as we grew we needed to get a better handle on the design process and handoff to engineering. We went straight to Zeplin off of numerous recommendations and didn't look back. We have had a great experience with Zeplin.
August 19, 2020
Zeplin is an awesome tool for handoff focused production
Zeplin is more focused on the handoff than in the creation itself. The other alternatives can do both, but Zeplin is an awesome tool for the handoff part. It depends in how big is your team and how the workflow is organized to understand whats the best tool for your team.
February 18, 2020
Zeplin - collaboration and user management at a glance.
It was a business need from different departments. From an IT point of view, we have been a part of purchasing and setting up. However, the decision to go with Zeplin was not ours.
August 02, 2019
As Pretty as it gets!
Zeplin has and easier on the eyes UI, not a cumbersome constructors of projects and easier collaboration.
July 20, 2019
Zeplin: A Design-to-Development Lifesaver!
- Sketch, InVision, Figma, Marvel, GitHub, Atom, Slack, Google Drive, Jekyll, JIRA Software and Abstract
Out of all of the products that I have used to support design-to-development handoffs, Zeplin is my favorite. It’s pretty lightweight and easy to use (once you get the hang of it). Zeplin also has a smooth interface and is, generally, clearer to use than other tools, such as InVision. Plus, all of the plug-ins that you can use with Zeplin have supported the design-development relationship and workflows in which I’ve been involved in more efficient, clear, and effective ways than I’ve seen with any other product.
May 16, 2019
Beautifully seamless design hand offs
These other tools are really helpful products for creating and sharing wireframes / prototypes. However, Zeplin is the best tool for the actual hand off between the design and development teams once the design is actually ready to share. Zeplin fills this gap and improves the communication and efficiency between departments.
May 15, 2019
Zeplin: Worth the Price
Zeplin is simpler. Zeplin lacks prototyping on par with InVision. Zeplin doesn't give a direct code for Android and iOS like Figma does. Zeplin doesn't have a lot of advanced features like InVision, for example, whiteboard. But Zeplin is good for at its job which is to share the design specs with developers. For the money, I think it is worth the value.
March 27, 2019
Awesome software
- Abstract and InVision
Zeplin is a really nice lightweight app, that is easier to use than InVision for sharing purposes. InVision does primarily handle prototyping, which Zeplin does not do. Abstract is my product of choice but is also a slightly different tool — almost a GitHub for design. It handles file storage too, whereas Zeplin is just an additional sharing mechanism.
February 10, 2019
Super slick hand off between design and product teams
We chose Zeplin because it allowed our product and design teams to collaborate more effectively, while providing the rest of the organization an easily accessible location to access up-to-date assets. While InVision's interface can be more intuitive, we prefer Zeplin because it gives our developers a space to live too.
December 27, 2018
Zeplin: The tool of the designer who is a programmer
- Marvel
Marvel is a pretty expensive application for what it gives you, it is a pretty good tool but I think the handoff is not as good as Zeplin's. I think the style of Zeplin is more oriented to developers and Marvel is more oriented to the designers. I like the way Zeplin is distributed more than Marvel.
- InVision and Marvel
Zeplin is great to inspect and share user interfaces, specifications and assets, perfect for developers. Tools like InVision and Marvel are much better to create prototypes for both developers, coworkers and even stakeholders, but they don't have this kind of feature (inspection) as Zeplin does.
So each of them can be used for different purposes, offering different approaches to share and interact with layouts for apps and websites.
So each of them can be used for different purposes, offering different approaches to share and interact with layouts for apps and websites.
- InVision and Marvel
For my company needs, Zeplin comes as the best tool in its category. Zeplin's competitors are great tools but they either offer way too many features or are priced above Zeplin with the same features.
Zeplin is in the right spot for both pricing and features.
Zeplin is in the right spot for both pricing and features.
December 18, 2018
Zeplin Review
Zeplin is a better tool for collaboration and has a deeper feature set that helps communicate the information developers need to build products.
I know there are other products out there but Zeplin has been so effective that I haven't even bothered to look elsewhere. The whole experience of Zeplin has been excellent. However, once Adobe XD is more built out Zeplin will finally have a formidable competitor as it will be a more seamless process and a lot of design is performed within Adobe products.
December 15, 2018
Great tool for designers and developers!
Zeplin is much better when it comes to seeing the properties and CSS code of the design elements. Our developers love it when they get all that info from the Zeplin file.
December 13, 2018
Great software - Definitely not the Hindenburg!
