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Pros

Easy to use: Users consistently find Shorthand very easy to use, enabling them to create engaging and visually appealing content effortlessly. They particularly appreciate the drag and drop feature, which simplifies the process of adding images and videos into the editor.

Great for high design presentations: Many reviewers consider Shorthand an excellent platform for creating high design presentation materials, especially when targeting C-Suite stakeholders. The interface is described as super intuitive, allowing users to seamlessly bring their ideas to life.

Quick creation of impactful stories: The ability to swiftly create impactful and visually engaging stories is a standout feature of Shorthand. Users value how it saves them time and effort in delivering captivating narratives that captivate audiences across various mediums.

Shorthand Reviews

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It's Shorthand for good content design

Rating: 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Shorthand to tell detailed, and highly visual, feature stories on our news website that deserve extra attention and which we believe will help engage our audience for longer than average. We have used it across news, sport, awards and lifestyle areas to give special treatment to a story. We use it to differentiate it from our opposition's approach to similar content. It offers a great way of using images and video to enhance a story.

Pros

  • Enabling visual storytelling with multiple pictures
  • Embedding rich media within a story, including video
  • Engaging readers for longer than average dwell times
  • Making it easy to create striking article design without coding experience

Cons

  • Additional flexibility in how text is overlaid on pictures would be welcome so that there are more choices on what images to use with particular layouts
  • Enabling users to control the path of text - for example, enabling runaround - could enable some excellent designs
  • Adding additional section templates could speed up design
  • More flexibility in caption placement would be helpful

Likelihood to Recommend

Shorthand is ideally suited to visual stories where you have a good number of images and/or embeds or video to include.
It is well-suited to long-form stories, where you wish to keep the readers' attention longer than usual.
It can help to differentiate particularly important or intriguing stories from others on your website - and for this reason, it could be used as a premium content tool, perhaps for subscribers.
It can also be used to showcase stories about awards you've organised, giving them special treatment.
It is less suited to breaking news, or very time-sensitive news stories, as it can take some time to prepare, post or update shorthand stories.
And it doesn't work well for stories with strong accompanying imagery.
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Director (51-200 employees)
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Shorthand
2 years of experience