Zeplin takes away the friction of design hand off to developers
Updated April 22, 2021

Zeplin takes away the friction of design hand off to developers

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Zeplin

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.
  • 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.
  • Better design and product quality due to perfect specifications delivery.
  • Immediate feedback or questions on designs using hotspots, questions, and comments.
I believe InVision is the only one that is supporting such inspection tools at this moment.

Do you think Zeplin delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Zeplin's feature set?

Yes

Did Zeplin live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Zeplin go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Zeplin again?

Yes

Zeplin helps with asset management and design artifacts delivery. It enables conversations like InVision with its commenting features. It can help maintain collections of design works in custom sections. Various inspection features support the developers to build pixel perfect interfaces. This is not useful for clickable or rapid prototyping. It is only helpful as an archive bridge between design and development.

Zeplin Support

The tutorials are very basic. Although they help some people get up to speed quickly, it is not very helpful for advanced users.