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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
- Supported: Comments and feedback
- Supported: Sharing and privacy
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- 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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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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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 and reviewed.
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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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- 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.
- 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.
April 27, 2021
Handoff+, yes!
- Collaboration tools.
- Design notes/documentation for engineers.
- Simple prototyping.
- Clickable actions to navigate prototypes naturally.
- Subscription model.
- 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
- 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.
- Collaboration between departments
- Excellent user management
- Better definition of roles within user management.
- Better options for versioning.
August 02, 2019
As Pretty as it gets!
- 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!
- 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.
May 16, 2019
Beautifully seamless design hand offs
- Beautiful, clean, easy to use, easy to navigate interface. Zeplin looks great and feels intuitive from the start.
- Zeplin is especially fantastic as a collaboration tool. You can easily annotate designs with unobtrusive comments, allowing teams to ask questions and make suggestions easily.
- Zeplin keeps our designs very consistent. For example, it remembers colors and font styles and makes it easy to build a style guide.
- Our design team uses Sketch to make mockups, which must then be imported to Zeplin. Basically, it adds another tool to the chain and more accounts to keep track of.
- The plans are a bit expensive. The product ultimately feels worth it, but I think it could be priced more cheaply.
- Internal navigation is sometimes difficult to figure out (e.g., the order of different screens and overall user flow).
May 15, 2019
Zeplin: Worth the Price
- 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.
March 27, 2019
Awesome software
- 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.
February 10, 2019
Super slick hand off between design and product teams
- Zeplin makes it super simple to share locked design assets across the organization, whether you're on the product, marketing, or support team.
- Zeplin's integration with Sketch streamlines design.
- Project organization is a breeze.
- The user interface isn't as intuitive for those just beginning to learn the system—something simple, like leaving a comment, isn't always clear as it could be.
- We do wish Zeplin integrated with more of our other tools.
- Prototyping is pretty limited.
December 27, 2018
Zeplin: The tool of the designer who is a programmer
- 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
- 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
- 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
Zeplin Review
- 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.
- 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
- More integrations
December 15, 2018
Great tool for designers and developers!
- 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
December 13, 2018
Great software - Definitely not the Hindenburg!
- Sharing
- Collaboration
- Discussion/Commenting
- Relies on artboards
- Photoshop plugin issues sometimes
- Updates too frequently