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Zeplin

Overview

What is Zeplin?

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 is a versatile tool that facilitates collaboration between designers and developers, streamlining the design handoff process and …
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Handoff+, yes!

8 out of 10
April 27, 2021
Incentivized
Zeplin is used by several departments across our organization - our product, design, and engineering teams all make use of the software. …
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Awesome software

9 out of 10
March 27, 2019
Incentivized
Zeplin is being used by the Product, Design and Engineering teams to share designs between design and engineering. It solves the problem …
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Pricing

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Free

$0

Cloud
per user per month

Team

$6

Cloud
per user per month

Organization

$12

Cloud
per user per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

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.

Zeplin Features

Project Management Features

  • Supported: Task Management
  • Supported: Workflow Automation
  • Supported: Mobile Access
  • Supported: Tagging
  • Supported: Search
  • Supported: Integrates with other Project Management Tools

Communication Features

  • Supported: Notifications
  • Supported: Comments and feedback
  • Supported: Sharing and privacy

File Sharing & Management Features

  • Supported: Versioning
  • Supported: Document files
  • Supported: Image files
  • Supported: Video files
  • Supported: Audio files
  • Supported: Document collaboration
  • Supported: Shared folders
  • Supported: Access control
  • Supported: Advanced security features
  • Supported: Web interface

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Zeplin Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

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 and reviewed.

Abstract, InVision, and MightyText are common alternatives for Zeplin.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.5.

The most common users of Zeplin are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

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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.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zeplin is primarily used as a collaboration tool for our UI designers, front-end developers, product managers, copywriters and every other stakeholder in the design and development of the product. It makes the design handoff process efficient by allowing the designer to upload their design directly from the the sketching tools and then basic code snippets are auto generated for the developer as a boilerplate code to work on.
  • Code snippets based on design are auto generated.
  • Integrates with existing collaboration tools used at the organization like Slack, MS teams and development tools like Visual Studio Code.
  • People can add comments to the designs which can be assigned as tasks to the relevant person within the design team.
  • Interface is confusing and unintuitive.
  • Steep learning curve for new users.
  • Tutorials in the self help section need a lot of improvement both in terms of depth and breadth of topics they cover.
Zeplin is more suited for teams that are looking for handoff tool that also has a built-in style guide. It is effective for both large and small project and primarily delivers most benefits when there are a large number of stakeholders. However, if someone needs a design handoff tool along with prototyping, Zeplin is not the right choice as it doesn't have prototyping capabilities.
  • Easily integrates with design tools used at our organization like Sketch, Photoshop and Figma.
  • Enhances collaboration by allowing people to give their feedback and comment on designs.
  • Integrates with existing tools like Slack and Jira.
Project Management (4)
N/A
N/A
Task Management
N/A
N/A
Workflow Automation
N/A
N/A
Mobile Access
N/A
N/A
Search
N/A
N/A
Communication (1)
N/A
N/A
Notifications
N/A
N/A
File Sharing & Management (6)
N/A
N/A
Versioning
N/A
N/A
Video files
N/A
N/A
Audio files
N/A
N/A
Document collaboration
N/A
N/A
Access control
N/A
N/A
Advanced security features
N/A
N/A
  • Development time has reduced as the design updates are communicated in real time to developers and they don't have to write the boilerplate code as it's already generated.
  • Employee engagement has improved as every stakeholder is aware about the design changes from the beginning and can give their inputs.
  • Designers save a lot of time as they don't to explicitly communicate when the update or publish their designs and also it just takes a couple of clicks to publish their designs. Also, lot of rework is saved as every stakeholder is involved right from the beginning.
April 27, 2021

Handoff+, yes!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 is well suited for collaborating on product design and allowing the designer to include all the necessary notes and details required by the engineer in order to move forward and build what has been designed. It would be ideal to allow for clickable elements with the design to be able to show/experience some natural navigation and therefore be better suited for prototyping and understanding behaviors/interactions of elements.
  • Publish from Sketch.
  • Collaboration tools.
  • Surfacing of style/design elements for engineers.
Project Management
N/A
N/A
Communication (1)
70%
7.0
Notifications
70%
7.0
File Sharing & Management (3)
56.66666666666667%
5.7
Document collaboration
90%
9.0
Access control
80%
8.0
Advanced security features
N/A
N/A
  • Improved collaboration which saves us time and keeps everyone on the same page.
  • Native integration with Sketch allowed designers to keep their current tool and import easily.
  • Improved handoff to engineering resulting in less questions and misunderstandings, which translates to faster development time and save money.
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.
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