Hey everyone,
A few things I've been sitting with and would love to hear your take. Maybe, maybe someone from Canva is reading and taking notes, even.
1. Is there a better way to do this?
I have been working with templates from designers and building out a brand kit. My current workflow goes something like this: copy each template one by one → create a folder to use as a base → then mark each asset individually as a template → and then again as part of the brand kit.
So I am essentially touching each asset twice: once to set it as a template, and once to add it to the kit. It works, but it feels incredibly manual and tedious (in this automation era, to make it more counterintuitive). Like there must be a better way to batch this, like e.g. import a set of templates and assign them to a brand kit in one go. Rather than going through everything piece by piece, twice.
Am I missing something obvious, or is this genuinely how it works right now?
Side note: the multi-format resize that came in with Canva Create 2025 is quietly brilliant if you're working across lots of formats. Just wanted to give it its flowers where flowers are due.
2. Where is AI actually taking us creatively?
AI was supposed to open up new creative directions. Instead, it feels like the opposite is happening and everything is starting to look the same. The same styles, the same compositions, the same "AI aesthetic." It's not expanding creativity so much as funnelling everyone toward a narrower set of visual outcomes. More of the same, just faster.
Which makes the feature request below feel even more urgent to me.
3. Feature request: full brand identity suites
Would love to see Canva offer complete brand identity packages. You pick a brand direction and get a full cohesive suite of assets all ready to go.(you social, print, presentations, email headers, etc, without having to look for me them and/or repurposing files the best way you possibly can).
Right now if you want that, you are basically heading to Etsy or Creative Market for a bundle and then dragging everything back into Canva anyway (hence #1). It feels like something that should live natively in the platform, especially as Canva leans more into being a full design ecosystem.
Anyone else feel this way? And if there's a smarter workflow for #1, please enlighten me!