Canva

I Literally Could Not Do My Job Without This

Every Instagram post, every YouTube thumbnail backup, every media kit, every collab proposal, all Canva. The AI features keep getting better but honestly I was already hooked before those. Magic Resize alone saves me hours every week when I need the same graphic in 6 different dimensions. And it's mostly free? Come on.

Democracy in Design, For Better and Worse

Canva's AI features, background removal, Magic Design, text-to-image, put professional-grade capabilities in everyone's hands. The templates are tasteful enough that most outputs look polished. What concerns me is the homogenization: when everyone uses the same templates with the same AI suggestions, visual culture starts to flatten. A powerful tool that rewards those who push beyond its defaults.

Every Marketer's Secret Weapon

My team produces 200+ social media graphics per month using Canva. The brand kit keeps everything on-brand, the Magic Resize reformats for every platform in one click, and the AI background remover handles product shots that used to require a photographer. We cancelled three other tool subscriptions after going all-in on Canva. The ROI is impossible to argue with.

magic design is magic at wasting time

tried magic design for a presentation and it gave me the ugliest templates ive ever seen. spent more time fixing what it generated than if id just started from scratch. the non-AI templates are still fine tho