At it’s initial global Canva Create Event In Los Angeles recently, Canva, the global all-in-one visual communication platform, accelerated its focus on the enterprise, debuting the platform’s biggest overhaul in a decade alongside a range of new workplace products and services poised to redefine the way millions of people work.
Melanie Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Canva stated “We are excited to introduce a revamped Canva experience and a suite of new products to empower every organization to design. As demand for visual content soars, navigating organizational complexity is more challenging than ever. We democratized the design ecosystem in our first decade and now look forward to unifying the fragmented ecosystems of design, AI, and workflow tools for every organization in our second decade.”
Rebecca Janes, Creative Designer and Environmental Branding Strategist at FedEx stated “Canva has become a far-reaching tool across FedEx. With Canva’s simple interface and vast selection of templates and graphics, our teams can quickly and easily create eye-catching visuals that help elevate the quality and effectiveness of our visual communications.”
Industry sources added that as visual communication becomes the status quo, Canva’s latest Visual Economy Report found that 92% of business leaders now expect employees in non-design roles to possess design skills. Canva’s new products unveiled on stage at Canva Create directly address this need by putting the power of design in the hands of 99% of employees without professional design training.
Industry sources further added that with Canva Enterprise, large organizations can create large quantities of visual content and scale internal collaboration with ease. This offering also comes with more sophisticated admin controls and security to keep assets safe and on-brand. Canva Enterprise includes:
- Scalable Growth: Increase seats along with scalable cloud storage to meet the needs of global organizations. Create multiple teams across an organization, giving everyone secure access to the content they need.
- IP, Cost and App Consolidation: Consolidate design, content production, AI and collaboration tools in one centralized account to scale impact while reducing cost and complexity.
- Advanced Brand Controls: Maintain brand consistency with robust controls to manage every aspect of your brand. Manage access to elements and templates in Canva’s library and control who can share content externally.
- Enterprise-Level Security: Robust security designed to keep organizations safe through tools including MFA, SCIM, SSO, and Canva Shield, an advanced collection of Trust and Safety Tools, including indemnification for AI-generated content for eligible customers.
New Canva UI Designed For Work
For the first time in a decade, Canva unveiled a complete redesign of its core product experience. Built to fuel creativity and productivity in the workplace, the new UI speeds up workflows and harnesses focus. Standout features include:
- Streamlined editing experience: A new contextual editing toolbar creates more space and improves focus. Fan favorites like one-click background remover and Canva’s Magic Studio AI tools are now front and center.
- A brand new, customizable homepage: Workspaces are now customizable. Users can favorite top designs, folders, and brand templates, while organizations can pin company or team-wide content to the top of the page. A powerful search interface with advanced filters allows for less time searching and more time creating.
- Simpler and faster collaboration: With easier navigation, teams can move between projects, access key assets and resources, and apply brand guidelines. Users can filter, sort, expand or hide comments to work more efficiently and collaborate with ease.
Tailored Tools for Every Team
Canva also introduced a range of tailored tools for every team consisting of several products, resources, and templates customized for the needs of Marketing, HR, Sales, and Creative departments.
This includes Canva Work Kits, new industry-curated collections of hundreds of craft-specific templates, from presentations to documents, built to enable teams to scale their output with easy-to-access tools. Work Kits are fully customizable and, with one click, can be branded using Canva’s Brand Kit. The initial Work Kits include resources such as:
- Human Resources: Onboarding decks, company newsletters, and job advertisements
- Sales:Pitch decks, sales reports, and sales proposals
- Marketing: Campaign content calendars, social media posts and campaign reports
- Creative:Creative briefs, production request forms, and brand strategy templates
Bolstering Visual Suite and Magic Studio AI Products
Canva continues accelerating its AI strategy with the expansion of Magic Studio, which has been used more than 6.5 billion times since launching in October 2023. Upgraded Magic Studio capabilities include:
- Magic Media: Text to Graphic: Generate graphics, icons, and illustrations in a variety of styles from a text prompt
- Magic Design: Generate 3x higher quality presentations with improved AI design technology
- Resize & Magic Switch: Convert any design to any custom doc – enter a prompt, or choose from new options like a video script, LinkedIn post, or presentation outline
- Styles & Layouts: Apply brand colors and templates to an entire design in just one click
- Supercharged Photo Editing: Our AI-powered photo editor gives you the ability to seamlessly move, remove or edit any object in an image – just like you’re editing a Canva template.
- Upgrades to Video: AI-powered Highlights cuts a selection of eye-catching clips from longer videos, while Enhance Voice makes audio crystal clear by reducing background noise.
Supercharged Products Built to Fuel Work
Canva has also updated its Visual Suite with several top-requested features designed with teams and organizations in mind:
- Suggested Editing: 375 million Canva Docs have been created since their launch in 2022. Now, users will be able to track changes and collaborate on edits.
- Apps from Amazon Ads, Google and Meta:Apps built by the world’s largest ad platforms offer instant feedback on designs and easy access to asset libraries and templates approved by each platform.
- Data Autofill: Bring business data into Canva from third-party sources like Salesforce and the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) to automatically fill designs with text and images to create custom assets at scale.
- Bulk Create: Speed up your marketing workflow by uploading a CSV or Excel file to Bulk Create which allows you to quickly update images, text, and graphics across various designs.
Extending Affinity Following Canva’s Acquisition
Canva’s recent acquisition of Affinity makes the platform a full-stack solution for all designers, including professional graphic designers, illustrators and typographers. Today, Affinity launches v2.5 with new advanced editing options to supercharge its pro editing performance. Upgrades include:
- Variable Font support: Opens up a new world of typographic design possibilities
- Stroke Width Tool: On-document way of editing the pressure profile of any curve
- Support for ARM64 chips: Optimized for the latest Windows PCs, making Affinity the first creative software with end-to-end native ARM support
Canva has also announced today that eligible teachers, schools, and non-profits can sign up to a waitlist to be the first to access Affinity for free. Canva already offers Canva Pro at no cost to schools and nonprofits all over the world, with more than 60 million students and teachers, plus 600,000 charities and registered nonprofits, benefiting from this each month. Free licenses are set to be provided to those on the waitlist in the coming months.
