Canva is an end-to-end AI-powered visual communication and collaboration platform empowering everyone in the world to design everything from presentations to infographics, videos, documents, websites, social media graphics and more. With pre-templated designs and thousands of stock images, videos, soundtracks, and fonts, Canva is a simple way to create visual content at scale, available on the web, iOS and Android.
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1. I love the simple UI, unlike other design tools that require some kind of training, this tool is so simple that spending even an hour on it allows you to run it like a pro. No hidden features, no complicated tools- Just a simple decent UI. 2. Another good thing is the vast variety of templates, assets, illustrations, images, videos, icons all available in one place everything is already inside. 3. The feature of adding multiple brand kits is what really amazes me. Again, it's a paid feature, but a wonderful one. For example, we have 4 clients and I can change the branding as per the client's brand, with just that you get your added logo, specific assets, fonts, colors and so much more in one place. 4. Despite being a paid tool, it is not at all expensive and them providing it for free to students is such a great initiative. During college days it was my literal savior for group projects and those last moment ppt's.
We have found three major strengths with Canva: 1. The various tools and features allow for easily creating elements from scratch and manipulating them in finer-tuned ways as needed. 2. The suite of premade items is plentiful and often suits the exact type of presentation we need them for, especially with these elements being easily manipulated. 3. It is easy to not only connect with other individuals when working on documents, but also to export them in whatever format is needed.
- I've been using this for my pet project with my brand The bookmark. Love the brand kit I can maintain across multiple designs. - Version history like in a developer tool makes it easy for me to switch back to a particular version. - Extent of libraries and image editing options Blur, remove background, layers, frames, open canvas.
Their customer service is a bit disappointing, their replies are not quick and resolutions are not up to the mark. Once I just randomly lost my whole date and customer service had no solution for the problem and I needed to send many mails and a very long follow up to get things done. Another problem is that it glitches a lot, a few features just stop showing up once and then appear by itself, this happens a lot with the especially the AI voice tool, it just disappears and appears as per the tool choice. Lastly, since the data deletion issue I do have doubts about their data safety and am not sure about my data security.
Some areas of refinement we have noticed in Canva are: 1. The AI generated content can use some refinement, as it sometimes makes things that are overly stylized or difficult to manipulate. 2. When it comes to organizing files as a team, it does come off as a little overwhelming that document thumbnails are much larger than the folders we are trying to put things in, making it hard to know where to look. 3. This is a more specific situation, but we have noticed that resizing tables can be a little confusing in terms of whether the item you are clicking on edits individual cells only vs. the entire table at once.
- Inability to upload my fonts even in pro version. - The whiteboard should contain multiple grid options with rows and columns and subgroups. In Canva, it's an open canvas with visual alignment and not accurate. - Limited export options, cross-export options. A document can only be downloaded as a pdf, not as a jpeg or other options