New in Dec
Released: Dec 13, 2021
What's new
In this update, we've introduced new features to help you clone members across teams, and copy PRD documents across projects.
Adobe XD plugin
- Support recognizing and uploading the rounded corner data of your assets.
- Support for a new reminder to guide users when no artboards are created.
- Improved the plugin reminder to guide Guest users.
- Improve the plugin reminder to guide users when no artboards are detected.
- Fix: Our plugin may not detect any changes when you replaced the image of your design files.
Adobe PS plugin
- Improved the plugin reminder to guide Guest users.
- Fix: You may get stuck on uploading some design files.
- Fix: Fixed the interface flickering issue after your login.
- Fix: Shadow data is not correctly recognized.
- Fix: Gradient color is not correctly recognized.
- Fix: Overlapped colors are not recognized.
- Fixed the issue where overlapped colors are not recognized.
Figma plugin
- Support recognizing shadow and border styles.
- Support recognizing component variants of Figma design files.
- Improved the plugin reminder to guide users when they don't have access to any team.
- Fix: Design specs may not be correctly generated in some cases.
- Fix: Fixed the issue where 1px lines may not be recognized.
- Fix: Design specs may not show up.
Design & Interaction
- Support displaying the rounded corner data of design assets.
- the trigger to show percentage specs: pressing Alt to show and releasing Alt to restore to the original specs.
- Fix: Your selected development platform may not be remembered after refreshing the page.
- Fix: The settings you make in Presentation mode are different from the ones in Preview mode.
Storyboard
- After clicking the "Edit" button in Storyboard, the RP editing mode will be opened in the current window, not in a new window as before.
- A new page folder will be placed on the top of the Project Tree right now.
- Fix: Fixed the issue where you cannot smoothly move your overlapped artboards by dragging their names.
- Fix: The downloaded images don't have a format suffix.
- Fix: You may not download multiple page images at once.
Project Tree
- Added new visuals to simplify your dragging operations. Dragging a page may not change its hierarchical level again.
- Fix: In some cases, your Project Tree is unorderly sorted.
Document
- Support copying PRD documents across projects, together with the inserted design pace.
- Fix: When you insert a design page into a table, the design page is not completely displayed.
- Fix: Fixed the error problem caused by the unworkable page-turner.
- Fix: You may get a broken image icon when the inserted design page is deleted elsewhere.
Preview
- Fix: Your images maybe not be so clear when trying to view designs through a preview link.
Task management
- Support for a new button to create a task when you enter a project.
Team management
- Support for a new Guest role.
- Support cloning members to another team.
Project management
- Support for new projects for all iPhone 13 devices.
Design system
- Support moving design system project from one team to another.
- Improved the renaming strategy of your design system project.
New in Oct
Released: Oct 22, 2021
What's new
This time, we've added a new feature to select free templates to quickly kickstart your own RP project.
Sketch plugin
- Fix: You may not select some layers of your designs after upload.
Adobe XD plugin
- Support for a new reminder to guide users when they haven't joined any team or joined all teams as collaborators.
Adobe PS plugin
- Support for a new reminder to guide users when they haven't joined any team or joined all teams as collaborators.
- Fix: You may have the artboard size and auto spec not matching issue even when the specs have not included any decimals.
- Fix: All hidden masks may show up again after you've uploaded designs with marked layers.
- Fix: Your design asset may be not as clear as it was before after your first upload.
- Fix: Fixed the generator problem when you start our plugin on Photoshop 2015.
- Fix: You may get an incorrect shadow value after upload.
Design & interaction
- Adjusted the collaborators' access permissions. Collaborators can now change settings in the Presentation mode.
- Fix: Fixed the decimal problem of your Figma designs after upload.
- Fix: You may get an incorrect font color value after setting a fill color for a text layer.
- Fix: New user guide of our design modes may not show up when you first log in.
Storyboard
- Improved collaborators' project permissions. Collaborators can now click "More" on the top toolbar to show or hide some modes in Storyboard.
Prototype
- Fix: After cloning a project, the sorting order of prototypes in the cloned project may be different from the original project.
Preview
- Support auto directing your teammates to the page you've selected when sharing a project with a password-protected preview link.
- Fix: You may not be able to copy content using shortcuts when previewing an Axure prototype.
Project management
- Support for a new feature to enable users to view and import our free templates to quickly start their own project when creating a new RP project.
New in Sep
Released: Sep 3, 2021
What's new
With this release, you may check and copy color variables in code snippets when viewing design details in the Development mode.
Sketch plugin
- Fix: You may encounter blur issues when uploading very large artboards.
- Fix: Progress bar may get abnormal problems when uploading very large artboards.
- Fix: The plugin may go back to the home page when you clicking blank space during the uploading process.
Adobe XD plugin
- Support for inner shadow properties.
PS plugin
- Fix: Shadow properties may not be correctly recognized.
- Fix: You may not be redirected to select a team or project when you've successfully logged in.
Design & interaction
- Support copying and pasting pages with the relevant specs and pin comments.
- Support auto generating color variables in the code snippets.
Storyboard
- Fix: After clicking the space bar, the sorting order of the selected page and pages around may be changed.
Document
- Fix: When working on a document with your teammates, they may not be able to edit it for some reason.
Preview
- Fix: When previewing an Axure file, you may not be able to go back to the preview mode after clicking an external link included in the prototype page.
Project management
- Improved project cloning.
Team management
- Support resorting results based on login time when searching for a teammate with keywords.
- Improved the registration process by invitation. A new team is no longer automatically generated when someone has registered through an invite link.
New in Aug
Released: Aug 2, 2021
What's new
This update enables users to embed Mockplus designs to a third-party application, like Lark Docs, to streamline the entire product design workflow. The plugin interface and the compatibility of different plugin versions are also improved.
Sketch plugin
- Support reminding users to get help when they’ve failed to log into the plugin.
- Improved the plugin interface.
- Improved the sorting of the projects and project folders on the plugin. They are sorted in the same order as on the web by default.
- Fix: The image layers of your artboard may not be displayed after upload.
- Fix: After you’ve selected an empty team, creating a new project may not take effect.
Adobe XD plugin
- Support reminding users to get help when they’ve failed to log into the plugin.
- Improved the sorting of the projects and project folders on the plugin. They are sorted in the same order as on the web by default.
- Fix: Your design changes may not be recognized after you’ve changed the save location of your designs.
- Fix: You may not be able to download SVG assets after you’ve uploaded multiple designs in some cases.
- Fix: Some layers or images on the artboard may not be displayed.
PS plugin
- Support exporting masked vector assets in SVG format;
- Support reminding users to get help when they’ve failed to log into the plugin;
- Improved the sorting of the projects and project folders on the plugin. They are sorted in the same order as on the web by default;
- Improved the compatibility of different plugin versions.
Figma plugin
- Support reminding users to get help when they’ve failed to log into the plugin;
- Improved the feature of auto detecting the artboard size. The user experience has been optimized.
- Fix: Design specs may not be correctly generated in some cases.
Design & interaction
- Support setting the header or footer of one page, and apply it to all pages.
- Improved the asset layer selection under the Development mode.
- Fix: The light or dark appearance may not work under the Presentation mode.
- Fix: The scrollable area is incorrectly positioned in the Prototype mode when you adjusted the width of the Project Tree panel.
Storyboard
- Fix: A rare crash may occur when you conduct some operation in an empty project.
- Fix: The shortcut keys to zoom in or out may not work on macOS.
- Fix: The symbol of the asset name may not be correctly converted when you tried to download all assets in Storyboard.
Document
- Fix: An error message may pop out when you are trying to download a PRD.
- Preview
- Fix: You may try several times to successfully go back when you preview an Axure project.
Share
- You can now embed Mockplus designs to a third-party application, like Lark Docs.
- Fix: The color picker under the Development mode may not work when your partners open a Public share link.
- Fix: Your partner may trigger the new feature popup after they are trying to open a Public share link.
New in Jul
Released: Jul 12, 2021
What's new
With this release, you can switch between the Light and Dark mode according to your preferences for a better design experience.
Sketch plugin
- Support uploading a single artboard again even when there are no changes detected.
- Improved the layer name display.
- Fix: Fixed the error reporting when the name of the selected artboards is too long.
- Fix: The upload ratio of the Symbol assets may be incorrectly recognized.
Adobe XD plugin
- Improved the interface style.
Photoshop plugin
- Improved the interface style.
- Fix: Fixed the error reporting problems of lower versions.
- Fix: After uploading, your project may be sorted differently from Photoshop.
Design & interaction
- Support setting the appearance of the Mockplus interface, so you can switch between the Dark and Light mode according to your needs.
- Support searching for a target page when trying to add an interaction for a page.
- Support recognizing and generating iOS and Android codes of the line spacing property.
- Improved the display of the assets' size when the size numbers contain decimal places.
- Improved the asset selection. You can now select an asset faster and easier than before.
- You are now auto scrolled back to the previous position when you return back to Storyboard from the single page view.
- Fix: Your entered delay time may not take effect when changing interaction settings.
- Fix: You may not switch between different revision histories in some cases.
- Fix: The radius codes of the not-fully rounded rectangles aren't accurately generated.
Project tree
- Improved the page renaming on the Project Tree. The page name is now automatically selected and highlighted for faster changing.
- Fix: The number of pin comments may be different when you check it in Storyboard or the single page view.
Prototype
- Support moving Axure or Classic prototypes to other projects through right click menus.
Document
- Support opening the referenced design page in a new window, so you can view the page details without affecting the document viewing or editing.
- Fix: You may see some blue blocks in your downloaded PDF document.
Task management
- Support for more options to manage your tasks.
Preview
- Fix: You are no longer be scrolled back to the previously selected page after expanding a page folder.
Project management
- Support for more mobile device size options when you are trying to create an RP project.
- Fix: Project covers load slowly when you have many projects created on the home page.
Team management
- Support moving project folders across teams.
New in Jun
Released: Jun 3, 2021
What's new
This release introduces a new feature to hide all tasks in the same state with one click. When you are trying to download all assets, you can also choose to overwrite the asset files with the same name or not.
Sketch plugin
- Support restoring the layer structures of your Symbols in one click.
- Fix: Your uploaded assets may have a 1-pixel deviation in the size.
- Fix: Your changes may not be detected after you've replaced the image under a mask.
Adobe XD plugin
- Fix: Fixed a crash that could occur after a new page group is created for a new project under an empty team.
- Fix: Your large design may not be completely displayed on the web after the upload.
Photoshop plugin
- Fix: You may encounter incorrect artboard content issues on the web since the artboard layers are incorrectly recognized on the plugin.
- Fix: You may not be asked to overwrite a design file with masked assets as usual after you've uploaded it once before.
- Fix: You may get incorrect assets when you've masked the asset layer that stretches outside the artboard.
- Fix: You may fail to upload your design after you've marked empty layer groups for export.
- Fix: When you drag an image to the plugin, the plugin may open the image, not allowing you to do anything else, like uploading a design.
Design & Interaction
- Support choosing whether to overwrite asset files with the same name when trying to download all assets.
- Improved the display of the transparent background of assets. The contrast between the transparent background and the asset content has been strengthened.
- Improved the pin commenting. All similar member name will be listed out now for you to choose quickly when you @mention someone and type the name.
- Fix: You may be asked to confirm whether to delete a revision history, not a pin comment, when you try to delete a pin comment.
- Fix: Font elements may have a background after importing design from Figma.
- Fix: You may not be able to click to preview a referenced document when you've pinned a comment and refreshed the page.
- Fix: The text markups may disappear in the Development mode after you've switched pages.
- Fix: You may not find the code of your Adobe XD design's opacity after switching to the Android development platform.
- Fix: You may incorrectly select the previous pin comment when you've pined a comment and quickly switched to a new one.
Prototype
- Support for a shortcut "Ctrl + f " to quickly search for desired page on Project Tree under the Preview mode.
Document
- Support dragging and dropping to adjust the size of the left-hand Document Tree panel.
Task management
- Support choosing to hide all tasks in the same state.
- Improved the feature to filter tasks through task statuses.
Preview
- Support quickly focusing on a page by pressing "F" when the page is out of sight.
- Improved the page zoom. The zoom will be centered on mouse position when previewing projects without device frames.
Team management
- Supporting for an "Ungrouped" category to manage members.
- Improved the interface to send a request to join a team.
New in May
Released: May 7, 2021
What's new
This time, we've released a tree structure to manage your teams and members.
Sketch plugin
- Support auto naming a new page folder showcasing its hierarchical relations with other folders and pages.
- Improved the blur recognization of layers after uploading designs.
Adobe XD plugin
- Support auto naming a new page folder showcasing its hierarchical relations with other folders and pages.
- Improved the blur recognization of layers after uploading designs.
- Fix: Update notes may be lost after trying to upload and overwrite an existing design.
- Fix: Page states may not show up when you are asked to cover an existing state or add a new state.
PS plugin
- Support auto naming a new page folder showcasing its hierarchical relations with other folders and pages;
- Fix: The asset area outside the artboard may be incorrectly recognized.
- Fix: Fixed the asset issue after uploading high-quality designs.
- Fix: Your upload may get stuck at 85% in some cases.
- Fix: You may be asked to log in every time you use the plugin.
Artboards & online prototyping
- Fix: You may not see a progress bar when uploading artboards.
- Fix: The logic lines may be incorrectly positioned when your designs have been zoomed too small.
- Fix: After you've deleted a page in Storyboard, the following page may not be automatically selected.
- Fix: You may not get a complete share link when the network is too slow.
Design & interaction
- Added a new label to a page state carousel, so you can switch between different page states quickly.
- Added a new reminder after you've uploaded document references to your design under the Review mode.
- Improved the display of blur property in the right-hand panel.
- Support resending your pin comment when you've failed to send it.
- Fix: The code values for rounded rectangle components may be incorrectly generated.
Project tree
- Fix: You may trigger other shortcuts when trying to rename the page on the Project Tree.
Document
- Support for a horizontal scrollbar to simplify your document previewing.
- Fix: You may not be directed to the last editing position after refreshing the page.
- Fix: Your text may be cut off after pasting a large amount of text into the online document.
Task management
- Improved the interface style of the task detail page.
- Fix: The reminder at the bottom may be overlapped with each other.
Preview
- Support resetting the Preview link in one click for safer sharing.
Team management
- We've updated the team management page. A new tree structure is added to better manage your teams and members.
New in Apr
Released: Apr 8, 2021
What's new
With this release, you can choose to share the "Design", "Prototype" or "RP" mode only when sharing projects with your partners. While sharing the RP prototype using the preview link, you can still show or hide the password in the setting panel for better security.
Sketch plugin
- Support auto-detecting artboard size to match the upload scale.
- Adjusted the default way users log in. Now you can log in via browser with ease.
- Support collecting all relevant data in the background when an error occurs.
- Improved the recognizing of the font-weight property.
- Improved the feature to select a project.
- Fix: You may get a color difference problem after editing images in Display P3.
- Fix: You may fail to upload designs with too many layers.
- Fix: You may get the asset deformation issue after downloading the uploaded assets.
- Fix: Large images may be broken after the upload in some cases.
- Fix: You may encounter the asset stretching issue after using the "Trim Transparent Pixels" feature in Sketch.
- Fix: The shadow of assets in nested groups may not be correctly recognized.
Adobe XD plugin
- Support auto-detecting artboard size to match the upload scale.
- Support collecting all relevant data in the background when an error occurs.
- Adjusted the default way users log in. Now you can log in via browser with ease.
- Fix: You cannot search for desired project groups.
- Fix: A project may not be selected by default after switching teams.
PS plugin
- Support auto-detecting artboard size to match the upload scale.
- Support collecting all relevant data in the background when an error occurs.
- Adjusted the default way users log in. Now you can log in via browser with ease.
- Improved the uploading process.
- Fix: The plugin may affect the exporting of Photoshop's SVG images.
- Fix: You can now refresh to make the grayed-out upload button work again.
- Fix: The default size of the generated mask may be different from the selected layer when marking it for export.
- Fix: The asset may be incorrectly recognized when it stretches outside the artboard.
- Fix: Fixed the style issue of the lower versions.
- Fix: You may not be able to select the mask of hotspots.
- Fix: The inner shadow may not be recognized.
- Fix: You may upload an artboard as a new page.
Figma plugin
- Now Figma interactions work perfectly in Mockplus.
- Artboards & online prototyping
- Support viewing the number of comments per page at a glance in Storyboard.
- Support adding tags to multiple pages at once.
- Added new animations to show up the page-turner when clicking the page state carousel.
- Added folder icons to highlight page groups in Recycle Bin.
- Improved the "Notifications and requests" panel.
- Fix: You cannot drag and drop imported design pages in Storyboard.
- Fix: Your artboard image may not be completely shown when the Storyboard has been zoomed to be a ratio less than 50%.
- Fix: The text content in RP editing mode may be different from the content in the single page mode since text changes are timely synced.
Design & Interaction
- Super Admins can now delete the other members' manual specs.
- Support for the JPG format when trying to compress assets.
- Support sharing current section only when sharing projects with others.
- Support auto-saving your content when adding a comment.
- Support clicking to copying texts on the right-hand property panel.
- Adjusted the background color of the Presentation mode.
- Improved the performance of the Development mode, much smoother to check layer data.
- Improved the style of the code section on the right-hand property panel.
- Fix: The Review mode may disappear on the top toolbar in some case.
- Fix: You may get an incorrect compression ratio error when trying to compress assets.
- Fix: You cannot open the compressed asset folders after downloading.
- Fix: You can still access a page that has been deleted via the page link.
Project tree
- Fix: You may trigger other shortcuts when trying to rename the page on the Project Tree.
Prototype
- Support resorting your uploaded prototypes with drag-and-drop
Preview
- Support showing or hiding the password when sharing an RP prototype.
Document
- Improved the performance of the Document mode.
- Improved the style of the image loading window.
- Fix: Design images may be broken in some cases after being inserted into a document.
- Fix: You may insert a link at the end of the document, not the place where the cursor locates.
Task management
- Support showing linked pages only when managing tasks.
Project management
- Speed up the project loading.
- Improved the project sorting.
- Fix: You may experience little laggings when searching for projects.
New in Feb
Released: Feb 4, 2021
What's new
This time, we've released a "Public share" option to share projects. Anyone with this share link can easily access and preview projects, and view Storyboard without having to log in. You can also now download the code snippets of page assets in one click.
PS plugin
- Improved the display of layers with shadows on the web after uploading.
- Fix: Colors may not be correctly shown after uploading.
- Fix: The font weight property may not be correctly recognized.
- Fix: The undo command not working issue on Photoshop when using our plugin.
- Fix: Layers may be incorrectly positioned after uploading.
- Fix: You may fail to create a sibling group for an existing child group.
- Fix: The downloaded assets may be unexpectedly stretched.
Adobe XD plugin
- Improved the interface style.
- Fix: You may fail to create a sibling group for an existing child group.
Sketch plugin
- Improved the interface style.
- Fix: You may fail to create a sibling group for an existing child group.
Design system
- Support dragging the right edge of the Project Tree panel to adjust its width.
- Improved the linking between projects and design system libraries. Mockplus will redirect developers to the related design system libraries when you click the color or font variables in the Property panel under the Development mode.
- Improved the asset search strategy. All assets will be searched by name.
- Improved the way to expand and collapse asset groups.
- Fix: The asset description words may jump when trying to edit them in the editing mode.
- Fix: Sketch plugin may folder your asset group instead when trying to add an asset group.
Artboards & online prototyping
- Support for a "Public share" option to share projects. Anyone with this share link can easily access and preview projects, and view Storyboard without having to log in.
- You can now check recent notifications and requests inside any project without going back to the home page.
Design & interaction
- Added a Project Tree panel to help you switch between different pages in Presentation mode.
- Support switching project editing modes using shortcuts "Alt + 1/2/3/4".
- Moved the Pin tool to the first position of the comment tool bar. Now, the Pin tool will be selected by default for quick use when you enter the Comment mode.
- Moved the Text tool to the first position of the markup tool bar. Now, the tool will be selected by default for quick use when you enter the Review mode.
- Support selecting and downloading multiple assets by pressing "Shift".
- Support generating code snippets of assets. You can also download all those code snippets in one click.
- Fix: The code snippets for the rounded rectangle's corner radius may not be precisely generated.
- Improved the responding of shortcut keys.
Document
- Fix: Pin comments may not be precisely positioned after zooming in or out of the document.
- Fix: When you try to number your list, a dot next to the number may be lost.
Project Tree
- Support selecting and downloading multiple pages on the Project Tree.
- Improved the page searching. The searched pages inside a page group will also be shown now.
- Fix: The number of pages may be incorrectly shown on the page group.
- Fix: The name of the downloaded assets may contain underlines.
- Fix: The thumbnail of the deleted page may still exist after you've restored it back from Recycle Bin.
Preview
- Support for a new way to show the Project Tree panel in the left side.
- Fix: The hotspot may flash when previewing Axure prototypes and clicking the hotspot.
- Fix: When you are previewing projects on mobiles and clicking a hotspot, the other hotspots may also flash.
Team management
- Improved the interface to remove a member. You can now transfer the projects of the removed member to any other team members with ease.
- Improved the interface to transfer a team from one member to another.
- Improved the process of tranferring projects and project folders after removing a member.
Project management
- On the project home page, now you can open or edit a project on a new window.
- Support for a quick start guide to help new users get started with Mockplus in minutes.
- Improved the empty state of the popup window that helps you manage project members.
- Support a right-click menus to set up your project. Now you can click any part of the project cover to expand the setting menus.
- Support changing project owner. Now you can select a new owner to take over all related projects or project folders with ease.
- Improved the returning strategy of project folders. Now, you will return back to the parental project folder, not the home page, when you are trying to go back within a project.
- Added a new prompt to remind users when trying to delete a project that still contains shared assets.
- Improved the adaptive style of the project list on the home page.