Tag: UXPin

In the first week of 2018, we’ve introduced: enhancements to Design Systems, improvements to shortcuts in UXPin Editor, and released new Sketch plugin v.4.10.3.

Design Systems

• New: Colorize stroke for SVG assets. 
• Fixed: Issue with uploading big packs of assets to the Design System Library or Design System documentation.
• Small bug fixes and visual improvements.

Sketch plugin 4.10.3

• New: Dark background for white SVG assets in the Design System Library.
• Fixed: Issue with overridden elements after uploading a single artboard to UXPin.
• Small fixes and improvements.

Editor

• New: Improvements to shortcuts in the UXPin editor.
  If you’re interested what we’ve released in December, please check Changelog #20 and Changelog #21.

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Recently, we’ve released new features in Design Systems: search in the documentation, dark background for light assets and text styles, possibility to add colors from any website to a Design System. In the Editor, we’ve: added a possibility to break a symbol, improved copying and pasting, and enabled aligning single elements to the canvas.

Design Systems

• New: Break symbol – revert the symbol content back to regular elements.
• New: Dark background for white text styles and SVG assets in Design System Library and documentation.

• New: Search in Design System documentation. 
• New: Cancel upload of multiple assets in DS Library and DS documentation. 
• New: Add colors from any website when creating Design System from scratch.
• Small bugfixes and visual improvements.

Sketch plugin

• [Fixed] Squeezing Symbols after changing their size in Sketch and reimporting them into UXPin.

Editor

• New: Align single element to the canvas. 
• Copy/paste improvements. 

If you’re interested what we’ve released in December please, check Changelog #20.

This week we’ve welcomed December with the brand-new Shadows feature, a new version of the plugin compatible with the newest Sketch 48, and several improvements to the Design Systems.

Design Systems

• New: Renaming the Design System from the Dashboard by clicking on its name. 
• New: Replacing the Design Systems name within the logotype. 
• New: Adding line separator in the Design System documentation. 

Sketch plugin 4.10.2

• Plugin update to the newest version of Sketch 48 app (plugin is compatible with Sketch 47 as well).

Editor

• New: Adding shadows and inner shadows using controls in Properties panel. 

If you’re interested what we’ve released in November please, check Changelog #16, Changelog #17, Changelog#18, and Changelog #19.

In the last week of November we’ve released several improvements to Design Systems, Editor, as well as a new version of the Sketch plugin.

Design Systems

• Optimized lazy loading for the Assets section in Design Systems documentation.
• Fixed: Disappearing documentation for the Text styles after adding any elements to Design System Library in Sketch.

Sketch plugin 4.10.1

• Fixed: Decreased Sketch performance while using the UXPin plugin.
• Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Editor

• New: Completely new PDF exports that make documents scalable and allow to select text inside them.
• New: Adjustments to the recently released layers improvements.
• New: Changing opacity of an active element with the keyboard by hitting 0-9* (1 = 10% opacity, 0 = 100 or 0% opacity, depending on the current value).

If you’re interested in other November improvements, check Changelog #16, Changelog #17, and Changelog#18

Over past week and a half, we’ve released several improvements to Design Systems, Editor, and overall app usability.

Sketch plugin 4.10

• Updating colors and assets in Design System and Design System Library.
• Creating Design System straight from the Design System Library panel.
• Alignment issues for graphic elements imported from Sketch.
• Hidden layers from Sketch are no longer exported as empty.
• Symbols created in UXPin no longer disappear after re-sync with Sketch.
• Sketch pages are no longer exported as empty parent pages in UXPin.

Design Systems

• Ability to edit colors and assets in Design System Libraries and Design Systems.
• Auto-adjustment of the Design System Library panel when switching from bigger to smaller screens.
• Ability to create a Design System from the Design System Library panel. In the edit mode, the button will appear at the top right corner of a DSL window.

• Button to update assets and text styles in Design System Library and DS is now shown on hover.

Editor

• Automatic constraints for elements inside groups or symbols. The resize properties are set automatically in relation to the position of other elements inside that group.

Our Customer Experience team has released new a “Go to project” button:

• Removed the “Back to Dashboard” button from the project folder. Now you can navigate to the list of all Projects/Groups by clicking on “Projects” tab in the Dashboard.
• Updated “Go to Project” button on Preview and in the Editor.

If you’re interested in other improvements we’ve released in November, check Changelog #17.

In the second week of November, we’ve released a bunch of improvements to Design Systems in the following areas: symbol overrides, Google Fonts, Design Systems Libraries, and Design Systems documentation.

In the UXPin Editor, we’ve worked on the performance, added iPhone X canvas size, animations for the “Go to page” interaction, and fixed issues with not rendering Google Fonts while scrolling the Font Management modal. Details below.

Design Systems

• Added overrides for the visibility of  elements inside the symbol.
• Highlighted the edit mode in Design Systems Libraries and Design Systems documentation.
• Fixed: Google Fonts were not rendering properly in the Design System Library.
• Small visual improvements.

Editor

• Improved editor loading time.
• Added animations for “Go to page” interaction.

• Added iPhone X canvas size (375x812px).
• Fixed: Google Fonts were not rendering while scrolling the Font Management modal.

During the first week of November, we’ve released a bunch of small improvements to Design Systems including the following areas: fonts, color picker, and copy/paste for nested symbols.

In the UXPin Editor, we’ve added the possibility to drag and drop layers. We’ve also improved element selection in interactions. Details below.

Design Systems

• Possibility to copy and paste symbols into a different symbol.
• Fixed: stretching small images.
• Improvements to updating text styles in Design Systems Libraries.

• Fixed: applying text styles in Safari.
• Font background color is now applied when you drag the style to canvas.
• Changing the order of colors in Design Systems is reflected in the color picker.

Sketch plugin v4.9.2

This version of our plugin for Sketch comes with improved performance of exports.

Editor

• Possibility to reposition multiple layers on the layers list.

• Improved selecting elements when adding interactions.

If you’re interested in what we’ve launched in October, check Changelog #13, Changelog #14 and Changelog #15.

During the last week of October, we’ve added a bunch of small improvements for Design Systems including a color picker, search and performance optimization.

In the UXPin Editor, we’ve improved deleting guides and added the possibility to choose multiple layers.  We’ve also released a new version of Sketch plugin v4.9.1 that fixes problems with unsuccessful imports to UXPin. Details below.

Design Systems

• Possibility to add interactions to the particular elements inside the symbol.
• Added colors from the corresponding Design System Library to the color picker.

• Improved performance when scrolling a Design System with heavy documentation.
• Assets uploaded to Design System Library are displayed in the global search (cmd/ctrl+F).
• Symbols covers are updated in Design System Library when a symbol nested inside the parent is changed.

Sketch plugin v4.9.1

• Fixed: Unsuccessful import from Sketch removed prototypes in UXPin.
• Fixed: Problems with opening UXPin editor after importing from Sketch (“Add new page”).
• Small bug fixes and visual improvements.

Editor

• An easier way of removing unwanted guides.
• Improved display of equal distances between the elements.

• Auto-scrolling to the corresponding layer in the panel when the element on canvas is selected.
• Possibility to choose multiple layers using the “shift” key.

• Ability to hide the documentation tab in the Preview mode.
• Possibility to highlight interactions on the Preview by clicking on the canvas.

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

• [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

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.
  

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