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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
May 16, 2019
Beautifully seamless design hand offs
Zeplin is used by our product, UX design, and content strategy teams to hand off designs to the dev teams. Zeplin allows our dev teams to pull specs, assets, and code snippets directly from the design itself, which makes the cross-department collaboration and communication so easy. Zeplin contains our design system which keeps our UI components consistent across the product.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.