New in Feb
Released:  Feb 14, 2023
What's new
We've released the following new features:
- A new Sketch plugin that enables you to import designs, assets, and Libraries from Sketch
- Batch edit tasks, like deleting, and changing task status and assignee in bulk
- Link to a video when animating your designs in Prototype mode with drag-and-drop
- Customize the bottom toolbar location when you're in Storyboard or single page view
- Create both Asset and Library projects to build, share and reuse the same design system with your team
- Import assets and Libraries from Sketch to build, share and reuse the same design system with your team online
- Updated the Axure plugin and improved its performance
Collaboration & handoff
  • New ability to highlight the newly updated or uploaded designs by clicking the related notification message.
  • New ability to transfer the RP projects to others when removing a member.
  • New ability to combine the child pages when trying to combine page groups on the left Project Tree.
  • New ability to keep the interaction when trying to copy-and-paste or move both of the target and triggered pages of the interaction together.
  • New shortcuts to delete all annotations of a whole page by pressing "Alt + A" twice.
  • Improved the searching and loading speed under the Storyboard and single page views.
  • Improved compatibility with renowned web browsers like Safari and Firefox.
  • Improved the strategy of layer selection in Development mode. You are now able to freely check the distance between assets and other layers.
  • Improved the performance of the Prototype mode. The interaction of your prototype will never hang or freeze even if your prototype has too many pages.
  • Improved the performance of the Storyboard mode. The GIF images are previewed there now.
  • Improved the experience of dragging and dropping annotations in Review mode.
  • Fix: You may fail to upload an Axure file because the uploading time has exceeded the time limit.
  • Fix: You may get error messages when trying to resort or delete pages with drag-and-drop.
  • Fix: Your merged page stages may be unexpectedly separated when you've copied or moved them to the current or another project.
  • Fix: Your RP project may be changed somehow after being published to Mockplus Cloud. The number of pages, page names, and page sorting order may be different.
  • Fix: Fixed the inaccurate font weight issue.
  • Fix: Your teammates may be incorrectly taken into the Comment mode when you're trying to share the Prototype mode to them via the private share link.
  • Fix: The Prototype mode may crash when you are trying to upload a prototype with an unsupported format.
  • Team/Project management
  • Improved project creation. The default project type is also changed from "Private" to "Team".
  • Improved the experience of unregistered users. When they enter Mockplus Cloud via an invite link, the project homepage will automatically show "All projects", not "Recently viewed".
  • Improved member management. When trying to notify teammates after uploading design files, the newly added member group may not be included.
  • Fix: Fixed the incorrect expiry time issue.
  • Fix: You can invite others as an Admin to your team even when you're using the Free plan.
  • Fix: When you've set a team as the default team, you may still be taken into that team even after you're removed from the team.
  • Fix: Super Admins may get an error saying "You don't have permission to access this" when trying to transfer a team.
Task management
  • New feature to batch edit tasks, like deleting, and changing task status and assignee in bulk
  • Fix: When typing a very long description on the task popup, the scrollbar may not show up.
  • Fix: You cannot edit other task statuses after you've deleted a task status.
  • Document
  • Improved the loading speed of your document with much content.
  • Fix: When downloading a document, the loading icon still hangs even after the Download button shows.
  • Fix: Your document may be different in size when it has been downloaded.
  • Fix: The background colors, icons, and other content of your downloaded document may get lost.
  • Fix: Your document editing access may still work after you've closed the web browser while editing the document, and your teammates cannot continuously edit it.
Design system
  • New ability to create new Asset and Library projects to import and share assets and Libraries from Sketch. So, your entire team can build and maintain the same design system together in one place.
New Sketch plugin
  • We're excited to introduce our new Sketch plugin, which allows you to easily import your design files, assets, and Libraries from Sketch with a few clicks. You also can use the built-in Design System Checker to check whether the colors, texts, layer styles, and Symbols of your design files match with the selected design system. All in one place.
  • There are more features and improvements you should know about:
  • Show the number of pages when uploading design files
  • Upload the source files at the same time when uploading
  • Upload high-quality assets
  • Improved the uploading performance
  • Improved the artboard size range of the auto-detecting
Figma plugin
  • New ability to recognize the frames under the Section.
  • New ability to show the number of pages when uploading design files.
  • Improved the project selection. The project you've newly created will be auto-selected when uploading.
  • Fix: The project selected by default stays the same even when switching between different teams and projects.
Photoshop plugin
  • New ability to upload Smart Object assets.
  • Improved the artboard size range of the auto-detecting.
  • Fix: You may get error messages when trying to update the new plugin version.
  • Fix: You may not have any layers after uploading your design files.
  • Fix: The property of the Mask layer may be changed after the masked assets were uploaded.
  • Fix: The design file may be empty after being uploaded.
Adobe XD
  • New ability to identify file names when uploading design files.
  • Improved the artboard size range of the auto-detecting.
  • Improved the strategy to show joined teams based on the roles of users.
Axure plugin
  • New ability to log in via your web browser.
  • Improved the file parsing speed of large files.
  • Improved the project selection. The project you've newly created will be auto-selected when uploading.
  • Updated the plugin interface.