Does Figma Replace Zeplin?
Zeplin.io is a collaboration and design tool for teams building user interfaces. It enables UI and UX designers to easily share their designs with developers and other stakeholders, as well as collaborate on the design process.
Zeplin.io's mission is to make the design process more efficient and reduce the time and effort required to get a project to production.
Does Figma Replace Zeplin?
Yes, Figma pretty much replaced the Sketch, Zeplin, Invision bundle. It's an all-in-one tool that does pretty much everything UI/UX related.
Figma is a powerful tool that can be used for a variety of user interface and user experience tasks. It has most if not all the features of Zeplin.io, and a large library of community made plugins and resources.
With Figma, teams can design faster and more efficiently, as well as provide better feedback and have more control over the design process.
// Late edit: Here's Sean Doherty's perspective on it. He's the VP of Sales at Zeplin:
This is totally inaccurate, FWIW: Figma... "has all the features of Zeplin.io". What makes Figma a great design tool is what makes it subpar for collaborating on *finalized designs*.
Designs aren't locked, which means *anyone* can mess with them. Navigating Figma for non-designers is very hard. Zeplin gives you version control, locked designs, version differences, tagging, annotations, integration with jira *at the screen* level, pop out to ensure the build is accurate, flows to map complete user journeys, and so much more.
Using Figma to do all that wastes time and money and still gives you a suboptimal experience. Use Figma for what it was built for--just like Zeplin does (it's our design tool, too!)--a design tool...not a delivery tool for devs and product and others who need to get their fingerprints on a product before it's finished.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Figma has replaced Zeplin.io as the go-to design tool for teams building user interfaces. It's overall the better choice and employers seems to prefer Figma designers just because their teams are already using the software.
