Johannes' paper published in PRL and elected Editors' Suggestion!
Shortcuts to adiabaticity are a recently developed protocols to speed up adiabatic state transfer. We exploit these techniques to prepare well-defined single spin dressed states, which exhibit efficient coherence protection. Besides a detailed study of the transfer process, we show direct coherent manipulation in the dressed state manifold. Thereby, our results offer attrative avenues for applications in quantum information processing and quantum sensing.