Design
Zeplin
Zeplin is a design handoff tool that bridges designers and developers by turning Figma and Sketch files into annotated specs and assets.
What is Zeplin?
Zeplin was created to solve a specific and recurring frustration in the design-to-development handoff. Before Zeplin and the tooling wave it contributed to, designers exported assets from Photoshop or Sketch and sent them to developers alongside a document of specifications — hex codes, font sizes, padding values — that had to be manually extracted and frequently went out of date as designs evolved. Zeplin created a structured handoff environment where designs published from Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or Photoshop automatically generated specifications, exportable assets, and code snippets that developers could access without asking the designer for anything.
Zeplin's platform is collaborative — designers publish screens to shared projects, developers annotate and comment on specific elements, and the iteration cycle between design and development runs through the Zeplin interface. The product integrates with Jira, Trello, Slack, and GitHub, connecting design handoff to the project management and code review workflows where engineers already live. The inspection view, where developers hover over design elements to see exact measurements and properties, generates values on demand from the uploaded design data — which means the accuracy of those values depends on the design data being correctly stored and retrievable from Zeplin's backend.
When Zeplin has platform problems, product teams feel the disruption in concrete ways. Designers publishing new screens from Figma or Sketch may see uploads hang indefinitely or fail with an error before the screens appear in the project. Developers inspecting elements in published screens may see incorrect values or find that hovering produces no specification readout at all. Comment threads — used to document decisions and ask questions about design choices — may fail to load or post. The Zeplin desktop app may fail to sync with the web version, showing a locally cached project state that does not reflect recent design updates. Integrations that post Zeplin activity to Slack channels stop delivering notifications when the webhook system is degraded.
Outage.gg tracks Zeplin service status using community reports from designers and developers. If project uploads are failing, inspection is broken, or the app is not syncing, the live status page shows current impact from the Zeplin user community.
Common Zeplin Problems
Issues users most frequently report when Zeplin is having problems.
Login failures
Players are unable to sign in, receiving authentication errors or being stuck on loading screens.
Matchmaking problems
Unable to find or join matches, long queue times, or errors when trying to connect to game servers.
Disconnections mid-session
Getting unexpectedly kicked from active sessions, losing in-game progress or items.
In-game store & purchases
Cannot load the in-game store, complete purchases, or received items are not appearing in inventory.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Zeplin outages and server status.
You can check the live Zeplin server status at outage.gg/services/zeplin. The page shows real-time community-submitted outage reports, an hourly trend chart, and the current health status.
Zeplin can stop working for a number of reasons including scheduled maintenance windows, unexpected server failures, network infrastructure problems, or DDoS attacks. Check the live status page on Outage.gg for the latest community reports to see if others are experiencing the same issue.
Go to outage.gg/services/zeplin and click the "Report an Issue" button. Your report is counted immediately and helps confirm whether a problem is widespread. Reports from multiple users trigger a status change visible to everyone watching the page.
Click the "Notify Me" bell button on the Zeplin status page at outage.gg/services/zeplin. Create a free account and we will send you an email the moment Zeplin comes back online — no app download required.
Many services maintain official status pages with planned maintenance notices. Outage.gg aggregates real-time community-reported outages which often surface faster than official channels.
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