Canva Can Do's: This Way for Quick and Simple
December 14, 2017

Canva Can Do's: This Way for Quick and Simple

Tiffany Rachann | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Canva

Canva is presently being used for 80% of our company's graphic communications. We use the software primarily to design Social Media posts and headers but also to design letters, interactive proposals, flyers and business cards. It is used by two members of our team where we collaborate on, and edit therein, designs for final approval.

Canva primarily addresses our time constraints. Because of the nature of our business, we sometimes have to create quick announcements for events and/or community engagement opportunities. Canva is fairly easy to use and has a template library that is modern, eliminating the need to search for a design that is feasible.
  • Canva is incredibly easy to use, there's almost no formal training required and users can dive in right away. A for-sure plus when assigning administrative tasks to team members that require graphic designs.
  • Canva regularly updates their template library with fresh designs that are relative and modern templates helping brands to assimilate quickly and professionally.
  • Canva offers a folder option and a branding kit for easy reference when designing graphics interoffice and off-site.
  • Canva's free option is valuable and offers a fair amount of design options ready to edit.
  • Canva's Resize and Magic Resize options regenerate graphics without having to design them again entirely.
  • While Canva has expanded their free library of images, the company could vastly benefit from diversifying those images and offering more "realistic" images of people of color.
  • Canva for iPad offers a limited amount of design options, this becomes problematic for paid users who need to design on the go.
  • There seems to be a pixelation issue with some of Canva's designs. When saving most of the designs as a PDF, the visibility is altered and the images are extremely blurry. While it's on a case by case basis, having to redesign or scrap the design altogether refutes it being an easy graphic design program.
  • Because we are able to create and process graphics quickly and collaborate fairly easily within the system Canva is proving to be a fairly worthy investment with a good return.
  • Conversely, Canva isn't as objectively priced as it could be. There are other apps and software programs that are equally suitable for less. Currently the "For Work" option is $12.99/month for one user.
  • Canva could stand to allow small teams of 1-3 to collaborate for the same monthly price helping to prove the system valuable.
  • Design Bold
DesignBold is similar to Canva but with a much broader photo library and there's a lifetime user cost that is far more competitive.
Canva is well suited for an individual or team that is starting out with graphic design. It's also well suited for an administrative professional who has certain tasks that need/require quick and easy to create graphic references. It's less appropriate for a development team with specific graphics to create for web and app-based projects. There's no option to formulate and "paint" in Canva.