Zeplin
Design delivery platform for handoff between designers and developers.
Product Overview
Zeplin is a design handoff and collaboration platform that bridges the gap between designers and developers, providing specs, assets, and code snippets automatically from design files.
Best For
Best for design teams and engineering organizations who want to streamline the designer-to-developer handoff process with automated specs, code snippets, and seamless project management integrations.
Key Features
- Automatic design specification generation from Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, and Photoshop files, extracting measurements, colors, typography, and spacing without manual annotation
- Component and style guide creation with live code snippets in iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin/XML), React Native, and CSS to accelerate developer handoff
- Project organization with screens organized into flows and sections, supporting version history, design review comments, and status tracking across the development lifecycle
- Extension ecosystem with integrations to Jira, Asana, Trello, Slack, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket for embedding designs directly into project management and development workflows
- Design tokens export for colors, text styles, and spacing as platform-native formats including iOS Asset Catalog, Android colors.xml, CSS custom properties, and JSON
- Multi-platform workspace with web, macOS, and Windows apps ensuring designers and developers can access specs regardless of operating system
Pros
- +Eliminates the tedious manual process of measuring and documenting design specs, saving hours per feature by auto-extracting all layout information from design files
- +Code snippets auto-generated for native mobile and web frameworks give developers a running start implementing designs rather than interpreting pixel values
- +Extension integrations connect design artifacts directly into the development toolchain, creating a traceable handoff pipeline from design review to deployment
Cons
- -Requires design files to be uploaded to Zeplin's cloud servers, which may raise security concerns for organizations with strict data residency or IP protection policies
- -Pricing per project can become expensive for large organizations with many active projects, and the free tier is limited to a single project with restricted features
/// SPECS
- Pricing:ProFree
- Platform:Browser / Desktop
- Free tier available, premium features paid
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