Sneak Peek: What The Best Design Handoff Solution Should Be Like in 2018

A great tool does more than improving efficiency. It innovates workflow to such a smooth and natural experience that every user believes this is what a tool should be like from start.

Between Designers and Devs

In a product team, a designer’s workflow involves the design of interface and communication with the rest of the team, especially with developers. The later part can be physically and mentally exhausting: coming back and forth to deal with questions and revise, listening to each other’s jargon with “what-the-hell” faces, and handing off specs and assets for multiple platforms, etc.

We often hear designers and developers roast each other.

“The developer is such a lazy dog to realize a simple effect.”

“The interface logic is so messy and he can’t explain well.”

Enough BBQ :)

The Coming Design Handoff Solution

Given the eternal value of collaboration within a successful team, MockingBot, apart from being a rapid prototyping tool with great integration with Sketch, always aims to facilitate the seamless collaboration between different roles.

Recently, our team have been tirelessly working on the new collaboration features, and will officially launch the updates next week.

We provide some appetizers first.

1. Instant Specs

Developer can instantly read specs of the designer’s files without need to log into or download anything. A simple URL of the prototype shared by the designer is enough.

2. Automatic conversion of all-platform measurement

MockingBot adapts to all platforms of all resolutions, accurately conversing px/dp/pt/em/rem of IOS, Android, and PC.

Super clear, no more friction and confusion!

3. Automatic code

MockingBot prepares CSS/Swift/Android code of every element for the developer, drastically improving working efficiency.

4. Global and Single Slice Export

After the designer importing Sketch files into MockingBot by our Sketch Plugin, developers can export slices of multiple resolutions.

You can either download all slices in one click, or any single element slice as you need.

No more tedious and repetitive asset downloading and transferring from designers to developers.

More fresh new features will be introduced soon.

We will be really grateful if you let us know what you are thinking of the new MockingBot!