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Feel like a graphic designer
What do you like best about the product?
Canva allows those who may not be graphically gifted to easily design marketing material with customization and drag and drop features. The program provides many templates and layouts that make designing a charm. From Facebook posts, posters, and website graphics, Canva has it covered. There are wonderful stock photos and design examples provided that hep with inspiration.
What do you dislike about the product?
My only complaint with Canva is the mixture of paid and unpaid content. I would suggest that the paid content is separated in the interface to lessen frustration. I've had clients create a design without realized that they have chosen content that costs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Small businesses who cannot afford a graphic designer or Adobe Suite have access to design tools through Canva. It provides them a way to create in-store posters and social media content. My clients can easily create beautiful designs and documents.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If a graphic designer or Adobe Suite aren't in your budget, Canva is a great option.
Best Free Design Program
What do you like best about the product?
There are ample illustrations and photos to use to create new documents as well as templates to help guide your designs. They have a number of great fonts to choose from as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some items cannot be flipped or the colors changed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating exciting graphic signs for library displays as well as playful and fun posters to jazz up the space. Also used for personal use such as event invitations and posters for home.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great product for free designs. Easy to create designs using templates so great set up for non-creative types.
Learning curve, but nice designs
What do you like best about the product?
I very much enjoy the premade templates and designs Canva makes available to you, and that there are new templates being added everyday. The designs look professional and fun, conveys a wide variety of purposes. I appreciate the variety of preset sizes for online templates, they make it much easier where you don't have to go and look up exact dimensions.
What do you dislike about the product?
The monthly subscription is expensive considering many of the templates are not user friendly for editing and making your own. There are occasional hiccups with the software with downloading completed works, but it hasn't been too big of a deal if you have patience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I appreciate being able to make professional looking social media posts and posters, it makes it look like I spent much more time and money on it than I did.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't try to stay free. It's pricey, but the premium benefits make a big difference.
Fantastically Simple Design Software!
What do you like best about the product?
I use CANVA to produce promotional materials for our nonprofit organization & partners. Its simple to navigate, easy to train others to use, and makes for clear designs.
What do you dislike about the product?
For the most part, I have no qualms with CANVA. They have plenty of free templates.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Advertising and promotional logos.
Great for Pros and Noobs
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to create a piece instantly, even without a ton of design experience is without a doubt the best part of Canva. Their easy to use templates make it user friendly and optimal for even professionals who may just feel a little dry in the design well. The ability to share across teams and to invite others to edit a piece is also integral to our success with Canva. I know there are probably similar services out there, but the overall UX and friendliness of it is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not a huge fan of having so many paid for items, but also Canva is a business so I get it. They do offer one-time purchase vs credit which is nice so you don't feel locked in and that you're making a huge financial commitment. Sometimes they do experience technical (maybe server?) issues and when you go to download a piece, the formatting isn't quite right...but that's only happened a handful of times. When it does happen, support is there to help.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Overall - we have a huge backlog of design items that need to be created and only one designer. For smaller pieces that aren't for professional printing, our team uses Canva to solve the problem of the bottleneck that happens. Canva allows us to push messaging, social and more out quickly without having to wait for one person. Not to mention the edits are super easy, when they do come in.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely take a look at competitors, but also just play around with the UX to see if it fits your needs or if you even like the designs that are a part of Canva. There's definitely a vibe with some of the pieces, so you want to make sure that you'll be able to mold it to your brand as well, if you'll be relying on some of the pre-made content.
Excellent resource anyone can use
What do you like best about the product?
The templates! Super helpful and allows anyone to create beautiful graphics for any number of social outlets. I appreciate the templates for longer-form pieces, such as ebooks. Also, really like the team function. We use it for our team to keep our brand consistent. I also appreciate their many free (and low-cost) visual elements. That saves time to have everything in one place. I can build a piece pretty easily and quickly with the elements they have in there.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the text looks right in the Canva platform, but when I download it, it is off. They have been pretty quick about getting back to me when something is off, but it sometimes is delayed or I can't figure out how to get it download correctly. I do wish the "magic" resize had a few more options- Facebook link image- and also did more automatic resize. For example, the fonts re-size really small rather than filling the new space.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We do a daily radio show and need to create constant visual content to connect to the show. I could not do so with the same easy without canva. I am not skilled in Adobe, nor do we have a budget for the suite at this time. I appreciate that I can use Canva and it saves all my designs so I don't have to re-create the wheel every time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take time to get to know all that they have to offer. Make use of the templates- they will be your friend!! Additionally, make use of the "magic resize" that will allow you to quickly create pieces for multiple outlets.
Free Graphics Creator
What do you like best about the product?
I love the ease of use with Canva. Everything is laid out and the user experience is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's not much that I don't like about it!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm able to create graphics for all aspects of my content development. Whether it's for my content or my client's as well. From blog posts to social media, marketing materials, infographics, and so on.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's free and easy. There's no reason why you shouldn't use it!
Great for Infographics and Logos
What do you like best about the product?
There is a vast library of free templates and example which are a great help when deciding what style would fit your needs. The graphics, backgrounds, colors, and images that are available are helpful. You can load in your on images as well very easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does take some practice to find all the features and get used to what you can and can't do with the program. There might be tutorials which would be helpful, but I didn't see any. Once you get over the learning curve, it isn't bad at all to figure out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A lot of clients are wanting infographics and specialized logos for their reports. This makes creating those quick and cheap or even free.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Check out all the templates before you start. There are so many options and examples, it might spark ideas for your project.
Fun, creative & easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it has pre-made templates to get the juices flowing. I also love how they provide free or $1 images to use instead of paying tons of money for stock photos.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that you can't edit your canvas size once you've started a pre-built template design. I also don't like how the final downloaded images appear sometimes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Gaining some creative ways to lay out email headers. Also a plus if there are images I can use for free.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great design software for beginners. Does not have nearly as much functionality as Photoshop but makes it fairly easy to get a simple design job done.
Low cost, high value
What do you like best about the product?
My work was hesitant to invest in an actual design program, but still wanted to have high quality work done for outreach materials. Canva is the perfect alternative for organizations that aren't ready to invest in adobe or something like that. I don't have a design background, and it was simple enough to figure out that I can now produce very nice-looking materials quickly. They also have amazing customer service.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the site acts up for no discernible reason on my end and I can't use it or get to my designs for a while. That has been inconvenient at times. There is also less customization of individual shapes and texts than other design programs, but all that really means is that I've had to get creative.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
High costs of design programs make it hard for smaller businesses/nonprofits to make quality materials in-house. Canva helped us do just that.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great for turning the merely tech-savvy into makeshift designers. Able to produce impressive results with no significant design background.
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