Author: Paweł Wakuła

Paweł Wakuła is Program Manager at UXPin, The Full-Stack UX Design Platform. Since joining UXPin in 2015, he has led projects in Poland and Silicon Valley. Previously, he worked on projects for major telecommunication and software development companies in Poland. He holds M.Eng. in Telecommunication and MSc in Finance and Economic Analysis.

UXPin Changelog October 2017 #14

This week we’ve introduced the possibility to rearrange categories in Design Systems (both documentation, and Libraries), improvements to Smart Guides, nested symbols, and text styles. We’ve also released two versions of our Sketch plugin – v4.8 and v4.9. Details below.

Design Systems

  • Ability to rearrange categories in a Design Systems Library. 
  • Ability to rearrange categories in Design Systems documentation. 
  • Added information that the Design System Library will be deleted with the corresponding Design System documentation.                                          Edit Library
  • [Fixed] Nested symbols causing problems in parent symbols and in Design System Libraries.

Sketch plugin v4.8

  • Assign users with unique viewing and editing permissions for Design System Libraries in Sketch.

Sketch plugin v4.9

  • NEW: Ability to rearrange categories in Design Systems Library.
  • Improvements to the design exports from Sketch to UXPin.
  • Visual fixes and improvements.

Editor

  • [Fixed] Text styles not retaining the font style.
  • Smart Guides show equal-distances between elements when trying to align them on canvas.

If you’re interested in what we’ve launched in September, check Changelog #12 and Changelog #13

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UXPin Changelog October 2017 #13

This week we’ve introduced improvements to Design Systems, Sketch plugin, and Editor. Details below.

Design Systems

  • Review the changes while syncing symbol to/from library in the properties panel.
  • Create and manage categories in the Design System documentation.
  • Possibility to drag text styles from Design System Library to canvas.

Sketch

  • After removing a Design System Library in Sketch, clicking undo restores both the library and the corresponding Design System documentation.

Editor

  • Smart Guides show the distance between elements on the canvas.
    show elements between objects on canvas

If you’re interested in what we’ve launched in September, check Changelog #11 and Changelog #12

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UXPin Changelog September 2017 #12

Here is a portion of improvements for Design Systems, our Editor, and a release of a new version of the Sketch plugin 4.7.1. Details below.

Design Systems

  • Export design tokens from the Design System in a YAML format.
  • Instantly update all symbols on the canvas with the master version from Design System Library.
  • Update to the master version all the instances of a symbol on the canvas by dragging it from Design Systems Library.
  • Display in Spec Mode information that the given symbol is nested within a different component from Design System Library.

  • Fixed: nested symbols didn’t keep their size after refreshing the editor.
  • Visual improvements for buttons in Design System documentation.

Sketch (Plugin 4.7.1)

  • Plugin update to the newest version of macOS – High Sierra.
  • Fixed: Problems with changing “Uncategorized” name in Design System Library.
  • Fixed: Different order between items in UXPin Design System and Sketch Design System Libraries.

Editor

  • Smart Guides are only stretched between the dragged element and the element it snaps to.

If you’re interested in what we’ve launched in September, check Changelog #10 and Changelog #11.

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UXPin Changelog September 2017 #11

This week we’ve released improvements for Design Systems, our Editor, and a new version of the Sketch plugin 4.7. Details below.

Design Systems

  • Added “X” to close the Design Systems Library panel.
  • Replaced “from scratch” creator with an empty Design System.

Sketch (Plugin 4.7)

  • View, use, and edit your Sketch Libraries in UXPin.
  • Use custom proxy configuration for the plugin.
  • Small bugfixes and improvements.

Editor

  • While coping layers, “copy” is not added to the layers name anymore.
  • Ability to navigate through a prototype preview using arrows. Try it out!

If you’re interested in what we’ve launched in September, check Changelog #9 and Changelog #10.

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UXPin Changelog September 2017 #10

This week we’ve released improvements for Design Systems, our Editor, and a new version of Sketch plugin 4.6.1. Details below.

Design Systems

  • Ability to add colors with the hex code directly in the Design System Library in UXPin.

Sketch (Plugin 4.6.1)

  • Ability to add colors with the hex code directly in the Design System Library (as in UXPin).
  • Small bug fixes and improvements.

Editor:

  • The zoom level is kept the same when switching between pages.
  • [Auto-naming] Layers inherit names from the text elements and images.

If you’re interested in what we’ve launched in August, check Changelog #8 and Changelog #9.

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UXPin Changelog September 2017 #9

This week we’ve released improvements for Design Systems, our Dashboard, and a new version of Sketch plugin 4.6. Details below.

Design Systems

  • Redesign of the “Colors” tab in Design System.

Redesign of the

  • [Fixed] History not handling undo action while editing the symbol.

Sketch (Plugin 4.6)

Important: Plugin update mechanism is handled by Sketch.

  • NEW: View, use, and edit your UXPin Libraries in Sketch,
  • NEW: Easily access corresponding Design System directly from the Sketch Library.

Dashboard:

  • Now, a single click on the prototype name takes you to the Editor (double clicking allows you to change the name).

If you’re interested in what we launched in August, check  Changelog #7 and Changelog #8.

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UXPin Changelog September 2017 #8

UXPin changelog is our weekly series on all changes, improvements, and fixes we released the past week. If you’re interested in what we launched in August, check  Changelog #6 and Changelog #7.

Design Systems

  • Adding multiple elements to the Design System Library automatically creates a symbol out of them
  • Ability to add the same text style to the Design System Library multiple times 
  • Improved scrolling performance in the Design System Library (left – after, right – before)
  • [Fixed] Spec Mode not showing proper size of the symbol

 

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