Henrik Nordstrom
Senior Graphic Designer
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★★★★★
As a professional graphic designer with 15 years of experience, my opinion of Canva is necessarily mixed. For non-designers producing decent-looking work quickly, it's a wonderful democratisation tool. For trained designers, the constraints become immediately frustrating - typography control is limited, alignment systems are imprecise, and the template aesthetic homogenises everything. I begrudgingly use Canva when clients need to edit work themselves and Adobe is overkill. It serves that handoff use case adequately. Brand kit functionality has improved enough that I can build client systems my non-designer clients can maintain. I would never use Canva for serious branding or print design work, but I acknowledge it serves a real need that the rest of the design industry was ignoring.
