Canva has tackled digital design – and now the office suite is next

Canva is introducing a plethora of updates that aim to make its design ecosystem more appealing to professional teams and workspaces. The company has redesigned the platform to make it easier to find new and existing editing tools 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 revamped Canva experience and suite 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 we hope to unify the fragmented ecosystems of design, AI, and workflow tools for all organizations in our second decade.”

The redesigned homepage and editing experience will be available today, but, strangely, only to the “first million users who discover the secret portal” hidden on the Canva homepage. Otherwise, the updated Canva experience will be available in August.

Most of the updates are business-focused, like AI-based style matching for brands, allowing users to customize which boards are displayed in the Canva home workspace, and adding the ability for teams to “star” designs , folders, and branded templates to provide easier 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 colored highlight blocks to emphasize specific areas of text.

There are lots of new features and improvements included in this update, so you can check out all of Canva’s new features on your websiteBut here are a few that stood out:

The updated editing panel now automatically closes when not in use to prevent it from obstructing ongoing design projects, while a new “quick action” toolbar at the top of the page adds more of Canva’s most popular design tools – like color selection wheel and background removal feature.

There are also new “Magic Studio” AI tools like 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) are focused on reducing organizational complexity and “app sprawl” – effectively offering businesses an all-in-one creative store to replace all the dedicated design, AI and workflow they currently pay for. for, like Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite, Figma and Google Workspace. “The next decade for Canva will be about integrating all of these solutions into one platform,” said Adams On the edge.