As a UI designer, the longer I stay in the industry, the more I learn jargon, I can more or less cite cause and effect, correlation, color, and express design logic when asked “why do I design this way”, and the technical ability to do some of the “work required”.
But recently I always feel that their internal friction is very serious, so reflect on their working state, every day is full of all kinds of meeting, all kinds of pulling, and the front end of all kinds of cut reduction…
How much time do I spend on the design itself?
When I discovered this problem, I started looking for a tool that would help me sort out the clutter outside of my work and allow me to focus more time on design thinking.
Tried several software on the market, after comprehensive comparison, I still choose to copy guest.
Save delivery time
A key figure
At design time, you can use the plug-in to upload the design draft to the copycat. Support Sketch, Photoshop, Adobe XD, Figma automatic cutting; Front-end development engineers can independently acquire, efficient delivery.
- Cut the figure compression
One-click download of all cut map, cut map compressed volume reduced by more than 50%;
- Automatic conversion of different platform sizes
Can switch platform (iOS, Android, Web) and selection ratio, automatic conversion of different platform size;
- Custom cut diagram size
Development can be unified to modify the size of the cut map support center or stretch fill mode, on demand.
Smart label
While reading the layer data of the design draft, the copycat will automatically complete the identification of layer spacing, picture style, color, font and other information of the design draft. Therefore, the design draft uploaded to the copycat can automatically generate design annotations.
Sometimes, designers want the front-end students to pay special attention to some attributes (such as font, color, spacing, etc.), can be combined with another 5 manual annotations, to make the final restoration more accurate and controllable!
A quick review
Five tools are available for quick review after the client delivers the design. And each review opinion has three states: unresolved, solved and closed to avoid omission. During the review, references can also be added to relevant resources (such as some dynamic references) to make the review opinions expressed more clearly and perfectly.
Save design management time
Design draft interaction
In Copycat, there are 8 trigger ways and 15 interactive animations. With convenient functions such as returning to the home page and external links, we can quickly add interaction to the design draft and make the design draft move.
Managing Design Resources
Copycat can also help us create material projects and Library projects, manage colors, character styles, layer styles, components, ICONS, image resources and Library files, quickly unify the design specifications of projects, and achieve efficient reuse of design resources.
As a designer who is still growing on the design road, it will bring us a very good work experience to save the delivery time of cutting map, the debate time of multi-party review and the management time of design resources.
Moreover, Copycat can not only help our designers to easily handle product design and delivery, but also enable product managers and developers to use copycat. We should unify the productivity tools and ask the boss to pay the bill.