Adobe Zeplin
Today, leading brands, businesses, and organizations aren’t just designing experiences for one platform, but many. With the proliferation of digital products across a multitude of channels, from websites to mobile apps to smartwatches and beyond, there’s a greater need for a centralized, scalable method to quickly create delightful customer experiences while preserving consistent brand identity. The emergence of design systems emphasizes these shared goals of brand consistency, workflow efficiency, and smoother collaboration within product teams. And with an omnichannel digital landscape, time-to-market becomes critical so product teams now require faster design iterations and workflows to keep up with increased content velocity.
Style Guides Zeplin We previously covered how designers can collaborate with the dev team using Zeplin, but there’s a bit more to it; Zeplin is a great tool for generating style guides too. It makes sure your team creates consistent experiences by having an up-to-date online guide accessible to everyone from anywhere. Zeplin is a connected space for product teams where they can handoff designs and styleguides with accurate specs, assets, code snippets automatically. Export your file in one click using our Adobe XD and Adobe Photoshop plugins, generating development resources automatically.
With Adobe XD, product design teams can create shared libraries of assets and reusable components for your design system and use them across design projects. By using features like cloud documents, linked assets, and document history, you and your team can preserve a single source of truth for your designs on a collaborative platform that lets you operate at the speed necessary for iterating quickly and efficiently.
Design systems workflows, however, won’t always start and end in XD. Fortunately, our ecosystem is growing every day introducing new plugins that connect XD to leading tools that help you better create, implement and manage your design systems. Here are some of our favorites, that can help you create design systems documentation sites, share brand guidelines and assets, facilitate better designer-developer collaboration, and extract design tokens to use in your XD designs.
zeroheight
zeroheight is a collaborative online editor that helps you create and maintain a beautiful documentation site for your design system using assets and components created in XD. Designed for product teams that include designers, copywriters, and developers, it can be your single source of truth for design documentation. The zeroheight plugin for XD makes it easy to upload and organize XD components and styles to keep your documentation up to date on your zeroheight site. With zeroheight for Adobe XD, you can get a design system documentation site up in as little as a few hours. Our recent zeroheight walkthrough shows you how.
Frontify
Frontify is a user-friendly, holistic brand management platform – enabling its customers to maximize their brand’s consistency, efficiency, and involvement through centralization. With the Frontify plugin for Adobe XD, you can link the always up-to-date digital brand assets in Frontify directly to Adobe XD for seamless access to colors, typography, icons, imagery, and logos.
Zeplin
Zeplin is a connected workspace for product teams where you can share, organize and collaborate on designs—built with developers in mind.
Styleguides in Zeplin let you organize your design system colors, text styles and components in a centralized location. With Zeplin 3.0, engineers can now view UI components from their codebase right on the designs, with links to documentation—promoting reusability across the team.
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Toolabs
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The Toolabs DSM plugin is a stateful design system manager that lets you link design tokens to design elements in Adobe XD documents. Just create your design tokens, define design system states (e.g. color themes, multilingual, and versions), and make your designs themeable by defining system state variation, with no need to duplicate your artboards.
Superposition
Superposition is a free desktop app you can use to extract all design tokens from websites and use them directly in your Adobe XD designs. Just drop in the website URL to extract colors, typography, spacing, etc. Install the Superposition plugin for Adobe XD to then use the design tokens from inside Superposition directly in Adobe XD from within the Panel plugin. Select any object and the applicable tokens will be shown and clicking on them automatically applies them to your selection. Use it to make consistent experiences across different parts of your website and app and even across projects.
Design Systems have become a crucial element for product teams looking to scale their workflows to accommodate a wider breadth of digital platforms and channels. With these plugins, you can easily begin implementing design systems with XD to establish efficient workflows and brand consistency across your teams.
We’re excited to introduce the new Kickstart a Design System Collection in Adobe XD’s plugin manager.
If you already have XD, click here to view the new collection and download the featured plugins, or click here for Zeplin. And, If you haven’t tried XD, Adobe’s complete end-to-end solution for UI/UX design, you can download it and try it out for free.
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- 00:00:00 hi there with the release of our January
- 00:00:03 update for Adobe XD we're also
- 00:00:06 announcing a couple of integrations and
- 00:00:08 I'm gonna use the integration with
- 00:00:10 Zeppelin to explain how the process of
- 00:00:13 sending your design from XD to this
- 00:00:16 different partners so that the different
- 00:00:18 apps how it works so let me show you
- 00:00:21 first to get XD you can go to XT to
- 00:00:24 adobe.com and to get Zeppelin I'm gonna
- 00:00:28 use Zeppelin to explain how the
- 00:00:29 integration works you can go to Zeppelin
- 00:00:32 dot IO and here you can see this is an
- 00:00:34 app for developers to inspect
- 00:00:36 measurements colors in extract assets so
- 00:00:40 let's see how the integration works so
- 00:00:42 I'll start with Zeppelin here I will
- 00:00:44 create a new project I know it's gonna
- 00:00:47 be an iOS project and you can see there
- 00:00:50 are some instructions here how to send
- 00:00:53 that design from XD into that plane I
- 00:00:56 can give this project a name perfect
- 00:01:01 then I can go to XD selected design I
- 00:01:04 want to send or designs I can select
- 00:01:06 multiple artboards if I want to let's
- 00:01:08 say I want to select this one then you
- 00:01:10 can use the shortcut command option II
- 00:01:12 to send your designs from eckstein into
- 00:01:15 that they need to pick the project in
- 00:01:17 Zeppelin you wanted to send it to I'm
- 00:01:20 gonna choose density 2x it's now sending
- 00:01:24 those assets and everything all that
- 00:01:27 information here into this project it's
- 00:01:29 done then if I need to as a developer if
- 00:01:32 I need to inspect this I can double
- 00:01:34 click here and I can inspect
- 00:01:37 measurements it's based in points
- 00:01:40 because it's an iOS app I could also do
- 00:01:42 pixels for web and DP for Android apps
- 00:01:47 but let's say I wanna bring this button
- 00:01:50 as an SVG or as a PDF in this case PDF
- 00:01:53 for iOS I can then go to X D select that
- 00:01:57 guy that I want to make exportable in
- 00:02:01 Zeppelin then I open my layers panel
- 00:02:04 with that guy selected
- 00:02:07 it's called applied filters I can say
- 00:02:09 can rename it request
- 00:02:13 but I can then right click on this layer
- 00:02:16 intel XD to mark for badge export or you
- 00:02:22 can click on this little icon there once
- 00:02:24 it's done I can then select that
- 00:02:27 artboard again command option e send it
- 00:02:31 to Zeppelin and now if I go back to that
- 00:02:37 second thing that got imported as soon
- 00:02:40 as I select that option I can download
- 00:02:42 that entire asset as a PNG or as a PDF
- 00:02:46 so developers can use this in the real
- 00:02:48 app so that's it so play with
- 00:02:50 integrations and let us know what you
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