Item: Zeplin
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Zeplin

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used it as a main source of truth for design requirements for our clients, BAs, QAs, and developers. Important needs are to: -share assets for new UI items; -share precise sizes of lines, gaps, etc. for the purpose of accurate UI development; -asynchronous communication between different stakeholders regarding design.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Asynchronous communication regarding new designs
Share UI items' sizes, colors, gaps, etc.
Share assets
Versioning

Cons

I cannot pin the table of contents in web-application, it's annoying to expand it each time and scroll from the very top.
It logs me out very often. Smth like once a week I have to log in again and then refresh all opened Zeplin tabs. Too much
We cannot draw a flow, only single screen
We cannot create a dynamical prototype

Usability

-Inconvenient table of contents;
-Search only checks screens' names in the Zeplin project, not checks text on the screens, even though it's stored there as text and can be easily read from a technical perspective;
-I have to log in too often. This is too secure for such an application

Alternatives Considered

Figma

Actually, we didn't select Zeplin. After a long time of internal discussions, the majority of the team decided that we want to move to Figma. We still use Zeplin as a legacy, but we don't use it for new features. In my opinion, it's less flexible than Figma, which allows changes on the fly, drawing flows, creating dynamical prototypes,

Key Insights

Do you think Zeplin delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Zeplin's feature set?

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Zeplin again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Slack, Survicate, Tasks for Zendesk, MySQL Workbench, Trello

Likelihood to Recommend

It's good for:
-Asynchronous communication using comments related to particular UI item;
-Design storage with the purpose of having a single source of truth, let's call this specification;
-Sharing sizes, colors, assets etc. whatever developers need to develop accurate UI according to this design.

It's not the best choice for:
-To discuss UI in live meetings while making changes on the fly.

Zeplin Feature Ratings

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Good tool if you know what you buy