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What is Canva?

Canva is a popular, simple online graphic design tool. Users can import images, use templates to design banners and logos, or pay to use Canva's premium stock images/paid templates (elements starting at $1).

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Canva for Non-Profits.

Jo Mor
Director for HR in Human Resources at The North Church (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have Canva Premium for Non-Profits, allowing our team to have up to 50 users receive premium features at no charge.

Pros

  • Collaboration - We can create templates that the whole team can use to suit their specific needs.
  • History - We maintain a record of our previous actions in various situations.
  • Great tools and features - Canva offers a robust set of tools and features that enable us to create visually appealing products.
  • Convenience - Once a product is created in Canva, we can place an order for printing right through Canva.

Cons

  • They can continue to work on being more intuitive. Our users spend time Googling how to do something in Canva that would likely be more readily obvious in other products.

Return on Investment

  • Financial savings - non-profits receive up to 50 free users.
  • Happier staff - they have a tool they can use to accomplish tasks, and one that offers help along the way.
  • Negative - It isn't a professional graphic design tool so what we create will never have the same polish those tools can create.

Usability

Best graphic design platform

Verified User
Employee in Marketing (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Canva for any graphic design needs related to my marketing communication campaigns in channels like email, push notification, and in-app message. Canva is very user-friendly and it helps me stay efficient in my content creation process. It facilitates collaboration with my colleagues in case I need their quick reviews before moving forward with a graphic.

Pros

  • Templates
  • Integration with 3rd-party platforms
  • AI features and assistance

Cons

  • Need for more advanced image and video editing features
  • Need for More AI-powered partner platforms that don’t require additional subscriptions besides what’s already included in Canva Pro

Return on Investment

  • Timely delivery of campaigns
  • Higher campaign engagement

Usability

Other Software Used

Braze

Beginner to PRO in Designing

Megha BurmanView profile
Graphic Designer in Social Media at CoinCRED (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

in our organization as a graphic designer we use Canva it help us in designing social media post, presentations, banners without the help of design experts. Canva makes design easy and can work on projects with multiple team at same time, it save really lot of time, money and energy. This helps in maintaining brand language for the particular project.

Pros

  • It Removes Background in one click
  • Is easily convert the project ratio as per the requirement
  • Multiple Templated under one roof

Cons

  • Layer Placement
  • Masking tool
  • Offline Editing is Not available
  • Monthly subscription fee is high

Return on Investment

  • Its Saves a lot of Time
  • A very Productive Tool
  • online dependency as it will not work without internet

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Express

Other Software Used

Adobe Express, Adobe PhotoShop

Canva for the WIN!

Incentivized
Verified User
Strategist in Social Media (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Canva for social media content creation. Canva is easy to use in the creation of social media graphics custom-designed for the content that we share on our social media platforms. Canva makes creating and designing so much easier than using Adobe.

Pros

  • Template Variety
  • Functionality is Easy to Use
  • Professional Designs
  • Offers Variety of Tools

Cons

  • Search Term Functionality
  • Photo Searches More Accurate
  • More Elements/Shapes To Use

Most Important Features

  • Variety of Templates
  • Background Remover
  • Customization

Return on Investment

  • It would take much longer to outsource a graphic designer for custom content
  • It would cost significantly more to outsource a graphic designer for custom content
  • We are able to do all of our graphic design in-house

Alternatives Considered

Adobe InDesign, Adobe PhotoShop and Adobe Illustrator CC

Other Software Used

Google Drive, Dropbox, Bitly

I can't imagine doing my job without Canva's easy interface and powerful feature set

Maureen RiceView profile
Customer Marketing Manager in Marketing at ChurnZero (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a customer marketing manager for a B2B SaaS business. While we have an in-house graphics team, it's great to be able to work with their assets in a tool that doesn't require a graphic design background. CANVA IS THAT TOOL. Marketing, customer success, and customer education teams all use Canva here - across dozens of use cases. There isn't a single use case we haven't been able to use Canva for.

Pros

  • Marketing materials
  • Training GIFs
  • Logos and branding

Cons

  • I would like to be able to apply multiple effects to an image - background remover AND something else

Other Software Used

ChurnZero, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Slack