Canva revamps its platform, unveils Canva Enterprise for businesses

Canva, the popular online design platform, announced several new features and a new business-focused subscription at its first international Canva Create event in Los Angeles on Thursday. The platform unveiled its biggest redesign in more than a decade that includes a new homepage and editing experience for all users. Additionally, a new Canva Enterprise subscription for larger organizations was also introduced by the firm. The design platform also released several new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features within Magic Studio and Visual Suite.

Redesign of Canva Platform

One of the major talking points of the event was Canva’s decision to revamp its platform, including its homepage and editing suite. The company says the new user interface is designed to speed up workflows and improve workplace productivity, and highlights the following changes coming to the service.

• A new contextual editing toolbar on the front with one-click background remover and access to Magic Studio AI tools
• A new customizable homepage where users can view favorite designs, folders, and brand templates
• Organizations can pin company or team-wide content to the top of the homepage
• An improved search interface with multiple filters
• Easy navigation to allow teams to move between projects and access assets and resources

“We’re excited to introduce a new Canva experience and a suite of new products to empower every organization to design. As the demand for visual content increases, dealing with organizational complexity has become more challenging than ever. We democratized the design ecosystem in our first decade, and now we’re moving forward in our second decade to unify the fragmented ecosystem of design, AI, and workflow tools for every organization,” Canva CEO and co-founder Melanie Perkins said in a prepared statement. Looking forward to. ,

Canva says the new homepage and editing toolbar will be made available to the first million users who can find a secret portal hidden in the Canva homepage. For everyone else, the redesigned platform will be available in August.

Canva Enterprise launched

Canva Enterprise
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Canva Enterprise was also announced as a new subscription service aimed at larger organizations that have brand management, administration, reporting, and complex security needs. Canva claims it will allow businesses to create large volumes of designs and templates, as well as create tools to collaborate internally on a large scale. Additionally, it also comes with admin tools to secure brand assets. Some of its features include:

• A scalable cloud storage to provide enough space to store designs and provide secure access to an organization’s employees
• A centralized account with integrated design, content production, collaboration, and AI tools to easily manage memberships
• Security tools like Canva Shield, SSO, SCIM, and MFA to keep organization’s data safe

Canva Magic Studio gets new AI features

Highlighting that Magic Studio has been used more than 6.5 billion times since its launch in October 2023, Canva introduced six new features for its AI-powered editing suite at the event on Thursday.

Canva AI Editor
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• Magic Media: It is an AI-powered text-to-image generator capable of creating graphics, icons, and images.
• Magical design: It can generate high-quality presentations
• Resize and magic switches: It can convert designs to any custom document with text prompts
• A styles and layout tool to apply brand colors and templates to an entire design with a single click
• A better AI-powered photo editor
• A highlights feature that cuts and selects aesthetic clips from longer videos
• Volume Up: It amplifies audio and reduces background noise in video.

Improvements to Canva Visual Suite

Canva has also introduced several new features to the Visual Suite. Users can now track changes and collaborate on past edits, get access to Amazon Ads, Google and Meta approved asset libraries and templates, a data autofill feature that lets businesses integrate with salesforce and MLS (Multiple Listing) service), and Bulk Create which lets users upload a CSV or Excel file to instantly update images, text, and graphics in different designs.

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Canva Workplace Features
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Expanding its product to meet workplace needs, Canva introduced a series of customized tools called Work Kits for different teams like marketing, HR, sales, and creative departments. Task kits are customizable and can be branded using Canva’s Brand Kit.

Canva Courses and Affinity

The company also unveiled Canva Courses, which offers interactive courses to help users learn and improve their design skills in formats such as presentations, documents, and videos. Progress on Canva courses can also be managed from a central dashboard.

Affinity, the full-stack desktop design app recently acquired by Canva, has launched a new version of the platform with new features like variable font support, stroke width tools, and support for ARM64 chipsets. The company also announced that eligible teachers, schools, and nonprofits can sign up for a waiting list to receive free access to Affinity. Eligible candidates will be provided free licenses by the company in the coming months.

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