Please provide support for creating accurate specs for Developers in combination with PNG Express, Specking, Avocode, Markly, Zeplin, Craft, Marketch or built into Adobe XD itself so pixel perfect designs are translated in to code as accurately as possible. Zeplin is popular and this is what I favour at the moment. As soon as possible please, it would make a huge difference to a lot of companies I believe. Thanks.

Yes, a tool to continue the workflow for developpers is the missing chain.
Some thing like "Extract tool in dreamweaver" is a starting point.

Or a option to activate for developpers when they are viewing the prototype on line.

Generating Specs is a big issue! For Designers & Developers!
Please resolve this quickly.

thanks

If XD exported info html and images like Zeplin for Sketch it would be the real deal.

Now that we've designed the entire product in XD, we are now considering going back to Sketch because this is a big issue.

After I share the final prototype to the Developer, the Dev team should be able to extract the CSS properties just by clicking the object I've created. Something like Developer view mode will help. CSS peeper app works like this for any site, A feature like this in XD will be so helpful and time saving for both Developers and Designers.

There is no point of sharing just PNGs if there is still some difference between mocks and htmls. Spec export plugin/feature will definitely help designers to not to go for nitty-gritty details.

Hi there.

I love using Adobe XD and want to use it exclusively. However, not having the ability to easily export code to collaborate with developers is a big hurdle. Please provide your plugin structure to Zeplin. XD would be infinitely useful. Thank you.

To add to this idea, a third tab for the guidelines would work. As a UI/UX designer, I think it might be consistent with the use of the previous two (directly on the artboards), where we can select what we want to "measure" and export this "tab" as specs for developers (A little bit like the way we [used to] select slices when we export in photoshop or illustrator).

A breakdown between development and design is when you hand off concepts, Development needs to know the colors of each element. It would be helpful if I could export screens where there is a color breakdown of the elements on that screen.

This would help to eliminate the back and forth between departments when Finalized assets are turned over for implementation.

One example is to export each artboard with swatch callouts that would be a good start.

Then development can distribute the appropriate screens and swatch callout to each team member responsible for implementation - "screen_01.png" "screen_01_swatches.png"

Whether its a Zeplin plugin or built-in function - The need for developers to access measurements and specifications should be the norm for this kind of application.

What can take at least a day to red-line should take at a maximum of a quarter of a day when using XD.

+1 for Zeplin export integration

This is crucial, but may be too late now, my team is looking into Sketch as a design tool for the integration with Zeplin. Our visual designer is spending too much time writing up design specs for developers.

+zeplin

That works for me Elaine, as long as there are ways that you can quickly screenshot the measurements as part of fast conversations that happen over slack or email. Sending links to view the entire design is often not what I'm looking to do but want to point out a very specific part of the design that I want an engineer to fix and show them the measurements of what it should be

Integration with Zeplin need to be top priority. Or add similar funktion. I will have to go back to Sketch otherwise...

Yes really! XD is useless if we only use for prototyping. what we do after prototyping? we redesign it in photoshop? then export to Zeplin for developer? Its good if XD allow Zeplin plug-in that export design directly to developer by Zeplin.

Any idea when this is coming?

Really hard to hand my designs to devs right now. People ask me to use Sketch or PSDs instead.

need zeplin too... plz!

All we need is Zeplin (and love) !