Canva is a popular design platform with about 170 million users worldwide. With its user-friendly interface and features, it’s fast becoming a favourite in the design scene. Some weeks ago, Canva had its third Canva Create event in Los Angeles, where they rolled out some exciting new features that will improve your design game. These new updates are cool and they enhance the functionality and user experience for individuals and teams. Let’s look at some of the new Canva updates.
New Canva updates to look out for
- New interface
- Canva enterprise
- Bulk create
- Recordings
- Courses
- Work kits
- Magic studio
- Canva docs
- Data autofill
- Ad tech integrations
New interface
Part of the new update rollout involves a new interface that helps to streamline workflows and organize designs. The Canva homepage now has intuitive shortcuts and templates that help to simplify your design process. The new interface also comes with customized workspaces that you can set up. It allows you to easily share information with the “Starred for Teams” section on the sidebar, which has made it easier to collaborate.
Canva enterprise
Canva also launched the Canva enterprise, an all-in-one workplace solution for organizations looking to improve their visual communication. The Canva enterprise was built to create high-impact visual content quickly. It is a subscription-based offering meant to empower large organizations and it comes with advanced security, administration, brand management, reporting, and integration requirements.
Bulk create
One of the new tools that was launched is the Bulk create feature. With this tool, you can speed up your marketing workflow to deliver your brand assets at a large scale. This means you can easily update images, text, and graphics across various designs in just a few clicks by uploading a CSV or Excel file without having to edit them one after the other, saving you hours of time and energy. You can easily create hundreds of multiple versions of your designs and edit them.
Recordings
This feature is exciting because it allows you to add a personalized touch to your customer or employee experience. You can now record voiceovers for your videos or presentations, record your screens, and give narrations for your design, explaining whatever you’re working on slide by slide, making you pitch-ready for your meetings with your clients or team.
Courses
Canva now has a new go-to learning workflow for courses. You can now set up courses for your team and for whatever purpose. It can be onboarding a new hire, upskilling team members, or sharing company updates. With courses, people can now have access to learning and development training right on Canva. You can turn designs and presentations into Courses that are accessible to everyone.
Work kits
Work kits are a collection of specialized templates and resources for professionals to provide inspiration and help start projects. It is a tailored hub for teams, providing access to a curated collection of resources, templates, playbooks, and apps for professionals. Currently, Canva Work kits are available for teams in Marketing, Sales, Creative, and HR. These kits are customizable and can adapt to a company’s brand. You can find them in the Canva marketplace.
Magic studio
Magic Studio, Canva’s AI tool was not left out of the updates. The magic studio has a several new and improved updates making it more effective and efficient. With Magic Media, you can now create icons, stickers, or illustrations by describing what you want. Also, Magic Write allows you to personalize your texts using your brand’s unique tone of voice. By sending in a sample, it can generate a text that matches. With Magic Design, you can now generate higher-quality templates that require less editing to get it right.
Canva docs
Canva Docs has also had several upgrades to help you work more seamlessly. The editing experience just got better with the launch of suggested editing which works for effective real-time collaboration. You can also now make comments on a document for easier collaboration. This update also introduced new ways to amplify your message and make it visually engaging. You can now add graphics or Canva design to your documents. Other additions include animated banners, data visualizations, coloured text blocks to highlight important content, and columns and page breaks to structure information effectively.
Data autofill
This feature allows you to create sales materials, presentations, and reports that require data automatically without having to check manually and constantly update from multiple platforms.
All you have to do is integrate your business data from its sources into Canva and match your data source with the corresponding data fields in your design, and Data autofill can update them directly in Canva. This saves you the stress of having to input data figures into your designs manually.
Ad tech integrations
The Ad tech integrations make it easier for you to design your ad creative without having to start from scratch. With already-made templates, you can design your ad creative and optimize it for better performance, getting tailored suggestions from your partner apps before publishing directly to Google, Meta, or Amazon right there on Canva.
Conclusion
Canva’s latest updates solidify its position as a leading brand in the design space. It provides efficient tools and features that cater to both beginners and professionals, empowering users to bring their creative visions to life. With the new updates, your design process for your brand and marketing projects can become easy and seamless.
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