Canva is introducing a host of updates that aim to make its design ecosystem more attractive to professional teams and workspaces. The company have redesigned the platform to make new and existing editing tools easier to find and announced a specialized level for companies which provides more control over collaboration, brand management and security for larger organizations.
“We're excited to introduce a refreshed Canva experience and a set of new products to empower every organization to design,” Canva co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins said in the press release. “We democratized the design ecosystem in our first decade and now look forward to unifying the fragmented ecosystems of design, artificial intelligence and workflow tools for all organizations in our second decade.”
The redesigned homepage and editing experience will be available today but, interestingly, only for the “first million users to discover the secret portal” hidden on the Canva homepage. Otherwise, the updated Canva experience will be generally available in August.
Most of the updates are business-focused, such as ai-powered branding style matching, which allows users to customize which folders are displayed in their Canva homepage workspace and adds the ability to Have teams highlight branded designs, folders and templates. to facilitate access to specific projects. Canva Docs, the company's equivalent to Google Docs or Microsoft Word, now has a “suggestion” mode for editors to leave recommended edits and new colorful highlight blocks to emphasize specific areas of text.
There are many new capabilities and improvements included in this update, so you can check out all the new features of Canva. on your websitebut here are a few that stood out:
The updated editing panel now automatically collapses when not in use to prevent it from clogging up design projects in progress, while a new “quick action” toolbar at the top of the page adds more of the editing tools. Canva's most popular designs, such as color selection. background and wheel removal function.
There are also new “Magic Studio” ai tools, such as automatic clip highlighting and background noise reduction for video editing, and a new text-to-graphic image generator for producing icons, graphics, and illustration-style designs.
Canva co-founder Cameron Adams says these updates (and future ones) focus on reducing organizational complexity and “app sprawl,” effectively offering businesses a one-stop creative store to replace all of Canva's dedicated tools. design, artificial intelligence and workflow that pay today. for, such as Adobe's Creative Cloud suite, Figma and Google Workspace. “The next decade for Canva is about integrating all of these solutions into one platform,” Adams said. The edge.
