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Pros
Love this product - overall, my websites look incredibly professional. It's better than all of the other platforms out there and it is so easy to use.
Ceros has a lot of various standard JS type animations which can transform a page into something that is fun or exciting to scroll through.
The team at Ceros amazing; responsive, super friendly, knowledgeable, and always willing to help.
Ceros Inspire is an amazing tool for quick layout templates to get your ideas following and also features some custom created sites for inspiration.
Cons
Ceros may be confusing and kinda hard to use the first time.
The worst things about Ceros are that the experiences crash when left untouched for several months, there are a ton of bugs, and sometimes the pixels are off.
I'm simply a graphic designer who can bob and weave my way around InDesign and Illustrator in my sleep, but once Dreamweaver and HTML are involved, I'm lost.
You might as well just stick with Canva because you are going to get frustrated and hate everything you create.
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"Ceros is a True Game Changer for the Interactive Industry"
Overall: Ceros is the WYSIWYG platform for interactive design that every non-web designer has been looking for. I'm simply a graphic designer who can bob and weave my way around InDesign and Illustrator in my sleep, but once Dreamweaver and HTML are involved, I'm lost. When you think about how advanced design is getting on the internet, graphic design gets to be very limiting. Ceros solves that problem. I, as a traditionally static designer, can jump into this easy-to-use platform and whip up lively experiences with fun interactions and animations. The content I create in Ceros is so much more engaging than anything I could create as a simple static PDF. For our team, it's been a cost effective way to create web experiences without paying an outside developer. Both our internal team and our clients love the Ceros work that we do. As Ceros adds new features, our design work gets increasingly better, so I hope to continue to use Ceros and make my work even stronger each year.
Pros: Many of my interactive designs have complicated carousels, click-to-reveals, navigation, menus, etc. Some of these things can really give you grey hairs at a young age, but Ceros makes detailed interactions easy to build out. The tools are laid out easily so that you know what each button is going to do and how it's going to interact with other objects on your canvas. It can be tedious, but it beats having to learn coding and deal with the HTML myself. A few other honorable mentions: Ceros has an excellent array of templates that users can take and build onto; Ceros also is very receptive to feedback from users, and I've found in my 3+ years using the platform that a lot of idea I've added to the suggestion box have been implemented.
Cons: The lack of functionality for quizzes and assessments is a bummer. To define what I mean by quizzes, I'm strictly talking about assets where you're posed with a question, you select an answer (possibly multiple choice) and the end result after a handful of questions is to be dumped into a specific bucket category. I've talked to many Ceros reps about making quizzes, and while it's doable, it's extremely convoluted and the output of metrics is unorganized. With that said, the analytics you receive from any experience isn't really all that much to brag about. The Ceros platform has a really nice display of visuals for users to see, but once it's time to pass the data onto a client or anyone outside of the Ceros platform, you get this extremely messy and hard-to-read CSV file. I don't love that. It would be better if you could export the graphs and data visuals straight from the backend of Ceros.
"A designer's interactive dream"
Overall: I've had a great experience. My account rep understands my needs and checks in with me regularly, and any time I have a technical question or need something "right now" the chat is super-responsive and very helpful.
Pros: Ceros gives me the ability to create beautiful things for the web without having to know code! It works well with Adobe products, and they continue to upgrade and improve the product.
Cons: Any features that I wish Ceros had are given to our account rep, who gives them to their development team as a wish-list of sorts. They have acted on many things, and continue to improve and add features.
"Good tool, Lacks professional services support. "
Overall: It is a sticky product and you start relying on it. But as a integrated vendor, Ceros has not been great.
Pros: Software is hard to use and complex, but does the job well. Team is consistent in improving with the constant releases.
Cons: Product is complex and requires heavy training or professional services to deliver upon the promise. The business model is optimized for software licensing and services are expensive.
"Good and Getting Better"
Pros: The web pages I can design through Ceros are beautiful, interactive, and almost entirely customizable. I love the flexibility of the platform and that you do not need any coding experience to dive in. We made a beautiful digital annual report for our organization, and for the first time, it generated online donations.
Cons: Ceros can be a little glitchy and particular. It is harder for servers to load, making our load time much slower for the end user and risking drop off. I'm a designer so it wasn't hard for me to learn the platform, but for those with no design experience I think it would be challenging to really use the platform for all it is worth.
"Great software "
Overall: My overall experience is good. the customer service is great!
Pros: Ease of used and ability to make it what you want it to be.
Cons: Some features could be easier to use. I wish there was a direct mailing feature integrated into the software.
"Ceros Review"
Overall: Overall, the platform is great and the customer service is amazing! I don't have web development experience. I actually came from commercial printing and self-taught Ceros with their educational tools. I've been able to create dynamic sites.
Pros: As an Adobe based designer, the Ceros platform is easy to create a layout with previous Adobe InDesign experience. Ceros Inspire is an amazing tool for quick layout templates to get your ideas following and also features some custom created sites for inspiration. The animation is easy to add and elevate any layout as someone who hasn't worked much with After Effects or other timeline animation tools.
Cons: The functionality could use some work. Features like paragraph and character styles are missing in the capabilities. The latest major update added some capabilities like "adaptive" layouts, meaning not quite responsive, but better than nothing mobile layout conversion from desktop designs. The platform isn't great for customizing SEO or social sharing.
"Great content development tool"
Overall: We are still early in our work with Ceros but the experience across the board has been excellent. We have loved the support we get, the design features, the templates and the learning tools that the team offers us. We use it for new content creation, repurposing older content and for enhancing our website experience. It's an excellent way to grow your marketing on a small or large scale.
Pros: Ceros has been a fantastic option to enhance a lot of our content management that existed as an ebook, technical document or report. It gives us another way to communicate key assets in a unique and smart way. There are endless options and it can be a blank canvas or template, depending on our needs. If you know Adobe, it can be a seamless transition on the design side and then some learning on animations and different web options to optimize the experience for visitors. They have a good analytics section as well that we are still learning but it's great to have that available. The customer service thus far has been excellent. There are regular check-ins, tutorials and you have access to their team to help you walk through some of the more complicated aspects of the tool. The Pro features have access to white labeling and dedicated URL handling which is a good feature as well.
Cons: If you are a beginner to Adobe, it can be difficult to learn and there is an investment. However, for organizations that are content marketing-focused, it's a fantastic tool to have at your disposal.
"Simple, robust and powerful"
Overall: I'm pleased using Ceros for it's ease of use resulting in complex animations. You can use the platform to create entire web pages, or embed animated web parts into your pages. The choice is yours!
Pros: From a user standpoint, the software is simple to use for the kind of complex animations it offers. It's also fairly easy to integrate into the web platform we use it on. The templates and inspiration examples offer a great deal of options to include into your designs.
Cons: One of the things that could use improving is the organizational structure of the experiences themselves. When creating many various projects with several experiences it would be nice to organize them into folder and subfolders for better organization.
"Stunning product with okay features"
Overall: I was able to leverage my Adobe Illustrator skills to create some really impressive motion infographics. Ceros also helps make your infographics interactive, condensing the size of the final product, and helping deliver snackable nuggets of info, as opposed to super long-form content.
Pros: If you're any good at creating PowerPoint animations, Ceros is a really cool tool that can help take your infographics to the next level. It uses a similar approach to animations as PowerPoint (fly in, fly out, fade in/out, etc) with an interface that is similar to Adobe Illustrator.
Cons: Ceros is very expensive for what it can do. The short trial costs too much, and you don't get to keep the assets you create. Animation options are also somewhat limiting. You can't really combine multiple animations on the same object simultaneously. It's also very time consuming to create assets that are worthwhile.
"Simple Graphic Design Without Coding"
Pros: Like the fact that you don't need to use any coding to create great designs
Cons: Layering can be a little confusing and frustrating sometimes
"Great software "
Overall: For me the experience has been great. I have been working with the software for over 2 years and have created several custom content pages for various brands. They are always improving and adding new features and listen to their users. As an example, you no longer have to create separate experience for desktop or mobile - it now lives in one file and you can just switch between and resize or replace the elements independently. You don't have to be a developer to understand this software and in a way can be more free in design. You don't have to worry as much about how to implement it - once you have an understanding of how the various animations and other tools work - alone or together to create the effect you need. Tech support is almost immediate and very helpful.
Pros: Overall I'm very happy working with this software - once you get to know it and have a better understanding of the tools and how they can help you, it's pretty simple to create great animated content whether it's a landing page, quiz or a article embedded graph. You can make it as simple or complex as you want and additionally you can embed other code (like JS or forms) to add features that might not exist within Ceros. Ceros has a lot of various standard JS type animations which can transform a page into something that is fun or exciting to scroll through. I'm very impressed with the Inspire gallery showing so many different applications and fun projects using the software and it gives us ideas to use in next project.
Cons: While there are not a lot of things I am not happy with, I do wish there were more shape features and line options ( octagon, maybe a free form shape, dotted or double line - sort of like Photoshop ). I also would like to see a masking tool. There are occasional bugs.
"Easy to use and wonderful support team"
Overall: Using this platform has made our process of creating interactive and dynamic content so much easier. The response from our internal teams has been incredible. Working with the Ceros team has been great - they are really invested in our success and support us as much as they can.
Pros: The software feels familiar, which made onboarding and training quick. The Ceros team provides so many training resources, both on their site and via regular webinars, which helps to train my team and keep us up to date on new features. The IT support team is incredibly responsive - some of the best I’ve experienced!
Cons: I think there are a lot of opportunities for the software to expand its functionality around paragraph and character styles that would make layout and styling faster and more streamlined. The animations are good but I would like to see them be more customizable, and the interactions more dynamic, in the future.
"Love this product!"
Pros: The ceros platform is super easy to learn how to use, and it allows me to make extremely high quality content in a quick time frame. I love the flexibility it provides to bring creative visions and ideas to life, without having to know anything about code at all. I'm able to create impressive, engaging and unique content that makes both internal teams and external prospects and customers really excited about what we're doing, and it brings a new level of creativity to the way we think about producing marketing collateral and assets.
Cons: The only negative thing I've noticed about this software is that there can sometimes be bugs or the studio can sometimes freeze when creating really complex content with lots of layers or interactions. However, the support chat in the studio is always available and I've found them super helpful and responsive when trying to solve these issues.
"Ceros es una excelente herramienta para la creación de contenidos"
Overall: La implementación de Ceros en nuestra estrategia de contenidos a ido un acierto. En el hemos podido crear contenidos interactivos con los que nuestros usuarios se han sentido cómodos de utilizar. Así mismo, cuenta con un apartado de analítica que nos permite ver la intereacción. Estamos muy satisfechos con Ceros.
Pros: Excelente herramienta de creación de contenidos interactivos, con la que puedes dejar volar tu creatividad e implementarla en cualquier medio de difusión digital. Con muchas funcionalidades y plantillas que puedes utilizar sin necesidad de tener conocimientos de códigos. Además, cuenta con un excelente servicio al cliente.
Cons: Algunas características son complejas. Sin embargo, atennción al cliente recibe gustoso tus sugerencias y las tiene en cuenta en sus actualizaciones.
"Ceros is a great tool for beautiful experiences done quickly, if you can afford it."
Overall: We have created some beautiful web pages with Ceros and the support team is extremely helpful and quick to respond! Overall it has been a nice partnership but there are some serious issues that should be addressed.
Pros: Ceros is easy to use if the user is familiar with adobe programs. After about one week of daily use, it becomes super easy to navigate and start creating!
Cons: Ceros is marketed as a way to create entire websites but it's just not quite there. The animation and design options are extensive but the inability to directly view and edit the code of your experience is such a detriment that it makes it hard to justify using Ceros over hiring a web developer.
"Herramienta de creación de contenidos con muchas funcionalidades"
Overall: Mi experiencia con Ceros a sido muy buena, su plataforma es intuitiva y fácil de usar, he logrado mejorar la creatividad con diseños más sobrios, limpios y profesionales.
Pros: Me encanta Ceros, es una herramienta de creación de contenidos interactivos muy potente, permite la creación de diseños atractivos y profesionales mismas que pueden ser difundidas en diferentes redes sociales. Cuenta con muchas plantillas y elementos que ayudan mucho a los creativos. Y lo mejor de todo es que su servicio de atención al cliente es muy proactivo y empático.
Cons: Ceros me ha ido de maravilla, y ante cualquuier duda por más pequeña atención al cliente me ha ayudado muy rápido.
"Ceros for interactive client projects"
Overall: Ceros has been a really challenging creative platform, and a lot of tools have been added in the last few years to compliment the ideas in my head! adding an action to an element, grouping it and adding a second has been great...can we do more please? like a 3+ actions on one element?
Pros: Create animated projects for clients and not have to worry about elaborate coding begin the scenes. Some of the 'hacks' i had as shortcuts several year ago have become standard tools (color palettes, layers) to make initial project setup much easier.
Cons: Been waiting 4+ years for some fine details, specifically rotating items at a percentage...for example, a 1/4 (90˚) turn, or 10% rotation. Found some workarounds, but there have been numerous instances when a client wants a clock-type motion and have been unable to produce exactly what they have in mind.
"Great product that has changed the way we create content"
Pros: As a service provider our industry is based on relationships, so finding new and interactive ways to reach our clients and influencer base is so important. Now we create content through the lens of user interaction and functionality instead of static web and white pages – we're seeing a dramatic increase in our engagements rates across the board, not only in click rates but time spent on the pages themselves.
Cons: The learning curve from static to interactive content can be steep, especially for teams that don't have designers available to work solely on this software. Even with Ceros' ability to simplify the process, it can still feel like a heavy lift for teams with high pressure deadlines that already run lean.
"Plataforma que mejora poco a poco."
Overall: E tenido una buena experiencia ya que es fácil de usar y se puede utilizar con cualquier otro diseñador,permite tener creaciones limpias y profesionales.
Pros: Es una plataforma creativa para construir proyectos interactivos y animados sin la necesidad de conocer detalles específicos de codificación.Cuenta con elementos muy interesantes de plantillas y diseño.
Cons: No se puede crear un formulario nativo en la página de destino,se tienen que cargar desde otra herramienta.
"Easy and quick to spin up"
Overall: Very positive - our design team can build pages quickly.
Pros: We use Ceros for quickly building marketing landing pages. These are used both on the website and for our email campaigns.
Cons: There's been a few issues with integrating Ceros pages with other analytics tools. Ceros does not allow for whitelisting, so we've had a few pages blocked when trying to integrate into other applications.
"Ceros Review"
Overall: AWESOME. Great client relations team, great customer support. 10/10.
Pros: I love how dynamic the platform and design interface is , truly graphic designer friendly, doesn't take a lot of code or web design knowledge.
Cons: Not the most SEO friendly platform I've worked with, there aren't drag and drop pre-designed design blocks, and although features do continue to be rolled out and product updates, there are some formatting and functionality features missing.
"Con Ceros la creación de contenido es excelente"
Overall: El contenido interactivo crea una retención mayor en los usuarios, así como una experiencia única. es una forma asertiva de crecer como marca o como profesional, y Ceros es una herramienta que ayuda a maximizarlo.
Pros: Ceros es una plataforma estupenda, permite la creación de contenido interactivo con un editor muy práctico y avanzado. Los resultados son muy buenos y la gestión de las bibliotecas, plantillas y estadísticas son comprensibles y correctos
Cons: La plataforma esta muy bien, llevo usándola 5 meses y hasta el momento no he tenido inconvenientes.
"My favorite platform"
Overall: We've been using Ceros since the early days, and it's been so cool to watch it grow and evolve. Our creative directors and design leads have always had good things to say about their interactions with the Ceros team, and of course I've enjoyed meeting them at B2BMX, Sirius, B2BSMX and other conferences over the years. I'm always a fan of Ceros' marketing, too.
Pros: I love that we can build immersive content experiences for all our clients, with tools that help us accomplish just about anything we think of when it comes to cool callouts, animations, layouts. And of course, it's great that we can then dig into the data to see what the users are actually responding to.
Cons: I wish metrics were available in a more customizable dashboard, and easier to download or share a custom report with a client... although I suspect Ceros is focusing more on one-on-one client relationships vs. agencies, so I won't hold my breath for that. Still cool that we can learn so much about what users are looking at.
"Ceros - An Invaluable Marketing Tool!"
Pros: Ceros allows us to create custom, unique, interactive experiences for our clients. We can create both proactive and reactive experiences to help us showcase our offerings and executions in the most compelling way. Building detailed and creative micro-sites enables us to show our clients how much we care and value their business.
Cons: I honestly don't have any complaints about the software. The Ceros team is very open to change and listening to feedback. They adapt the product constantly, upgrading it to meet the ever-evolving needs of the users.
"User-friendly tool to build interactive content"
Overall: Overall, the tool works great. The demo/sales process was very useful to me as a buyer.
Pros: We've only just started using this service, but it is so easy to pick up and start creating content. The navigation and tools feel like most other design tools out there. Plus, there are easy to use controls for content animation and interactions.
Cons: Not gonna lie, it feels awfully expensive, but when we started comparing what we'd spend elsewhere to get similar content created, it starts to make a lot of sense. They make a lot of examples available, but not all are available to copy the source files (which would be really nice). They are just visual inspiration.