Zeplin is a tool that helps your team collaborate and organize a project seamlessly. Unlike the two aforementioned, Zeplin is not an independent UI design tool, which means you have to create and edit the design in other standalone tools like Sketch and Figma and then import the draft into Zeplin. We’ve rebuilt the Figma integration from the ground up to fix critical performance issues. If you install the Zeplin plugin in Figma but don’t have the Zeplin desktop app installed yet, the plugin won’t be able to launch Zeplin for the export process to be done and it will be stuck on the 'Launching Zeplin'. I sometimes just try out new tech or web services for the first time and give my feedback as I go. This is the #timtries Series. In this video I look at Figm.
Companies design, prototype and build their digital products in many different ways. At Figma, we want to support systems of all stripes, so teams can collaborate using the process that works best for them.
That’s why I’m so excited about today’s news: We’ve integrated with Zeplin, a popular hand-off app for UI designers and front-end developers. Zeplin focuses solely on the developer experience, presenting the data to engineers in an intuitive way.
We’ve received a lot of requests for a Zeplin integration over the years. If you’re a Figma fan whose workflow depends on this dev tool, now you can transition seamlessly between the two applications.
Unlike Figma’s code mode, where the assets are always up to date for the developer, you’ll need to re-export your designs to Zeplin whenever you make a change to the original.
To enable Figma and Zeplin follow these steps:
- Download Zeplin and create a project (experimental is fine)
- Go to Figma and enable Zeplin by selecting the top left hamburger menu>>integrations>>Zeplin
- Make a frame in Figma
- Select the frame, hit export and choose “export to Zeplin”
- The Zeplin application will automatically open. Choose “import”
- Voila! Your Figma design can now be viewed in Zeplin.
As the product design space goes through an unprecedented eruption of innovation 🌋, integrations like this help teams work together in smoother, more efficient ways. We’re continuing to build out our platform, and we are always looking for interesting new partners like Zeplin, so shoot us a line at partners@figma.com if we’ve piqued your interest.
Figma designers stay focused on design, collaborating across functions becomes smooth and design systems go to the next level.
Stay in design flow, publish finalized designs for development
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With Handoff+, go further than specs by publishing finalized designs right from Figma. Developers get locked designs to build from, while you continue designing the next great iteration. Ah, creative freedom.
A limitless canvas designers love, the structured workspace the team needs
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Zeplin is a structured workspace that is friendly to developers, QA’s, PM’s and others not experienced with design tools.
With Sections and Tags, the team will easily understand designs, no need for extra documentation or design tool training.
Take your design system further than ever before
Extend your design system into the developer world with Zeplin.
Showcase reusable components with clarity for developers, including Figma Variants. Then, watch them go even further by connecting components to code.
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Translating the wall of screens in Figma to an organized hierarchy in Zeplin connects the designers’ creative work to the developers’ production work, it’s a critical step in our workflow.
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Zeplin is a friendly place for non‑designers & doesn’t require any orientation, they know what to do and this saves me time & effort.