Did Canva Just Destroy The World Of Graphic Design FOREVER!?

Normies don't care about design. They want something easy and cheap that looks fine for them.

CANVA IS BEST FOR BEGINNERS 👍

I believe it’s just our EGO. I’m a traditional and digital artist, i use adobe apps, procreate and canva, it doesnt matter what tools are you using, it’s just that others can’t accept the fact that non-artists/designers can do these jobs too, it may not be professional or just basic shortcut designs, but still they can, no need to gatekeep design and only honor complicated applications like adobe apps. this is like what others say “digital artists are not real artists”. please be a better person

Am a graphics designer and I primarily use Adobe illustrator and Photoshop, I happen to be away from my machine and a task comes in and guess what I resorted to on my phone, Canva... That said Canva is not going to replace the more advanced tools given their strengths against what Canva can do.

I am doing graphics designing from last 4 years.& started using canva 2 years ago.... first problems i face was ...i have to design for my customer is in my native language.. and canva design template is not for us.. i am asian and here peoples don,t like minimal, simple designs, they want vibrant, fully loaded designs because its part of our culture , we can,t change the mindset of whole country.. . i am doing my all graphics work in canva , my workflow is, i use alot of external elements resourses in designs.i also use photoshop/gimp or photopea for images manipulation... on the otherhand canva plus point is a powerful Ai tool, tons of assets library, and easiness to convert the design into an animated Instagram story or other sizes ... there is a ton of canva elements to work faster . team collaboration..one thing canva is limited in some areas...so you have to use a lot ticks to achieve the final result...only the final design matters.. another great thing is cheap subscription compared to adobe... and my design does not feel its mode in canva.. or photoshop due to my using my own creativity...canva is a tool ...start making design form blank template... use gimp or photoshop or photopea for images manipulation.. trust me you will save a lot of time .. canva is excellent... use your brain for making your own creative designs.

Recently Canva seem to be focussing on pro and paid areas and making their free product almost unusabale imho. Over the years it has been really easy to go to Canva and create a birthday invite or maybe a leaflet for our local sports club. Now it is so so hard to use. Possibly room for a newcomer to come and take the rats and mice away from Canva?

Canvas stole our old ideas and cost me my job! AI, designer crowdsourcing, and hiring workers without diplomas - it's the end!

Adobe Softwares = DSLR
Canva = iPhone

Canva just conserve my so much time i made good designs withing 20 to 25 min its just an amazing tool i can say that change is necessary maybe in future there will a more faster tool than canva for designing but for now canva is best in my opinion

I work on a school and teachers use it to make flyers for school events or design self created lessons that are more then just the oldschool cheap comic sans designs they used to use.

Canva is fucking shit, bad for decorating or designs, the controls suck, it’s templates are easy to access and ain’t special

Canva is a web-based convenience...but when we get to the output it falls flat on its face...not print-ready. Also creativity has no shortcuts...commodifying layout with templates is not always successsful

Canva it's not like a Photoshop or Illustrator it's like for kids designers and Pixart much better than canva it has much features canva doesn't have

Whats your opinion AI Intellect? That's better than People,Graphic Designer may be worthless in the future?

I have watched a few of your videos and they have been informative, so I subscribed. But this video asks the question: Did Canva Just Destroy the World of Graphic Design Forever? You showed some example cases of those using Canva, but then you never answered the question you posed. I really dislike when "click-bate" headlines imply an answer to a question, but then don't provide it. This video did not help me discover why these companies are using Canva and if a very experienced Photoshop user should consider it further. Disappointed.

my experience in canva walked so my experience in photopea could run so my work in photoshop could fly

Just like css templates don't make you developer, Canva doesn't make you designer.

Suddenly when everyone uses Canva templates, your design fails to standout.
Also, to pick a good design and making sure it's consistent and can fit your information and needs is a different thing.

Have you ever heard of poster my wall??

Ive been a graphic designer for decades and I love Canva. It definitely has a time and place but I wouldn't do without it. And I absolutely love the Teams aspect and the live conversation that can be had while designing. But it will definitely never replace my Adobe tools. Unless....one day it does lol. That depends on Canva and what they do with their platform.

I'm a graphic designer.

I think this is a powerful too, and I think it's great when you work with others that are not so design savvy.

I think the advantage of this tool are a few things:
• access to the same assets
• consistency by creating brand colors, fonts, etc.
• You can share designs and collaborate right in the app (no dropbox, no zipped folder)

It's a great starter for social media posts with tons of variety and layouts ready for input of information.

Let's see what happens as they continue to grow.

I think Canva's limitations are its strengths also. I do Photo Manipulations. Sometimes in Photoshop I m spending way more time on details that don't actually add to the idea or concept that I want to convey and I do that because Photoshop allows me to do it, it has so many tools that I can use to fix small issues. Canva on other hand doesn't have it, so when I am working I m focused on the idea and creative part more instead of using clone stamp tool to remove those details ( which needs to be done but not at the cost of a bad idea or concept)

What annoys me the most is that employers want you to use canva at the job. What did I study years to learn Photoshop,InDesign, Illustrator, etc. for, if I'm supposed to limit my creativity by using these kids programms??

I use canva for social media posts for clients who want quick solutions, but I think as a graphic design beginner, I wish I was not introduced to Canva first because, I feel I became dependent on Canva and I find it difficult to learn professional softwares because I have developed a habit of using Canva for everything.

As you said Canva has its place and time, to me if the customer presents their idea in Canva then I will see it as a concept of their dream and not the final thing - a roadmap on how they want it to come out.

the only problem I've found with canva is the video upload size not enough.

Canva is like digital scrapbooking. But it can be highly effective when you’re managing hundreds of brands with each of their own social media accounts. Social media is where Canva excels. The real issue is the absurd amount of digital content brands have to produce just to exist.

In my opinion if we talk about about web based tool for marketing designs then Express is good choise tho 🙌

Canva should be used as a tool and on the other side other skills need to be upgraded as a designer.

We started using Canva for social media content, it’s allowed a much faster creation process so can see the benefits from this platform, though there’s no core design system approach and it’s more open ended.

Canva is a tool, designers are getting opportunities from canva for creating design templates. Canva is mostly great for small companies. Its also for preparing quick plan or reporting as well. Its not always about replacing design tools.

When you get Canva pro, its game over. You will not believe the things you can do. I've been a designer since 2009.

As an in-house designer who oversees advertising at a large gaming/entertainment property I LOVE canva for some things.

Particularly social media post and short video that would otherwise eat into a lot of time taking me away from big projects. I still use Illustrator and Ps to create assets but it’s so much easier to put things together or work on the fly digitally. I also find it to be a cheat code when making GIF web banners and presentations.

However if you can’t use Adobe suite you won’t be able to do large scale signage, print and other more advanced projects.

If you’re still learning stay clear but if your in house wearing a lot of hats it can be so helpful.

I've been using Adobe for like 2 decades, but have also started using canva for template based work. It has better functionality when it comes to working faster, but does lack real design tools for logo design and just pure control. So, I use both Ai and Canva together to achieve best results for a given project. When I work in Canva, i miss Adobe, and when I work in Adobe, I miss Canva. Its defnitely not a tool to be scoffed at. As designers, we should be open to experimenting. Canva is not far away from matching Adobe and the next few years will be interesting....and for the price ITS DEFINIETLY WORTH IT when compared to Adobe's inaccessibility for most people.

Joke on them I use powerpoint ( for real )

Hate the clickbait title but...

Canva is just another tool.

It is changing expectations clients and employers have of designers - but our job always has been to adapt and educate.

Both affinity designer and even Inkscape are still better

I use Canva for some things, but I have MASTERED Adobe illustrator and photoshop.

I use Canva by day at the small IT support company I work at, I'm actually in sales but they figured because I studied Fine Art I can do their graphic design. Canva is cheap and helps me create designs for their social media and email newsletters. I have never done graphic design before but being tasked with this work has inspired me to learn so by night I am studying graphic design theory and how to use the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. So Canva is an affordable tool to get quick designs out but it can't replace design theory or the in-depth capabilities of Photoshop and Illustrator. Maybe Canva will keep evolving. They release new tools often.

Yeah i used to use canva but now i find my self using figma allll the time… for everything. I like the big whiteboard figma gives you and i feel it organized my assets a lot better. Also i feel like exporting images for blog posts are always higher in resolution from figma than canva.

As a marketing manager in a small company, with no background in design, I am playing catch up when it comes to social media management, Canva is a great tool for beginners and a launching pad for the big leagues. I'm learning how to use and improve on Figma and some adobe tools, at the same time I can apply some great and as you say consistent designs to around 7 brands that I work with.

One word comes to mind with Canva… BASIC

Canva is like an engineer using toy tools. They work but they are not going to have the same effectiveness.

As good of a tool as Canva is, it just worsened the field of graphic design in general, allowing unprepared "designers" to enter the market being hired for less and pumping more and more low quality "designs" into the media

I have read an article in the newspaper where a researcher said 70% of jobs will have been disappeared by the year of 2030. That’s within a very short period of time and most jobs where you have to work with your hands will survive. Almost all other jobs will be replaced with Ai and computers. There even is an implementation of Canva into chatgpt where a chatbot generates content within Canva.

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I use canva as a way to mock up the design I finalize in illustrator or photoshop. It’s easier to assemble and figure out the initial design for me 🤷‍♀️

Canva is an asset assembly tool, not an asset creation tool. Sure, there are thousands of digital content creators out there, who might call themselves graphic designers, but Canva is just another tool. It won't ever replace good, quality, efficient graphic design.