Canva unveils new workplace products at Canva Create

At its first international Canva Create event in Los Angeles last week, debuted 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.

“We are excited to introduce a revamped Canva experience and a suite of new products to empower every organisation to design,” said Melanie Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Canva. “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.”

The company debuted Canva Enterprise for large organizations to create large quantities of visual content and scale internal collaboration. 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.

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. 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

Canva also introduced Canva Courses, a new offering designed to for workplace learning. Canva Courses empowers users to turn existing designs like presentations, documents, and videos into sequenced interactive courses.

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.

Affinity updates following Canva’s Acquisition


Canva’s recent acquisition of Affinity didn’t slow down improvements, as 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.