G2

Kimberly J.

Conversion Rate Optimization Manager

Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/27/2026

"Fast, Polished Designs for Non-Designers with Canva"

5/5

What do you like best about Canva?

What I like most about Canva is how easily it helps non-designers create professional-looking designs. The drag-and-drop editor, along with its large library of templates, stock photos, icons, and fonts, lets me put together social posts, presentations, ads, and one-pagers in minutes instead of having to wait on a designer. The Brand Kit also helps keep our colors, logos, and fonts consistent across everything we produce, and real-time collaboration makes it simple for teammates to comment and edit together without sending files back and forth. Being able to resize a design for different channels with a single click is another major time saver, and it fits in well with the other tools we already use. Overall, Canva has helped our team create more polished content faster, with much less friction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Canva?

The biggest drawback is that Canva’s simplicity also brings limitations for advanced design work. When I’m working on complex layouts, precise typography, or detailed illustration, it can feel restrictive compared with professional tools like Adobe Illustrator or InDesign. Many of the most useful features—such as Brand Kit, Magic Resize, and premium templates and stock assets—are locked behind paid plans, and the costs can add up quickly as you add more teammates. Because the templates are so widely used, designs can start to look similar to what others are producing unless you put in the time to customize them. I’ve also noticed that larger, element-heavy files can slow down, and exporting to print-ready formats sometimes requires extra checking. None of these issues are dealbreakers, but they do mean Canva is best suited to fast, everyday marketing content rather than highly specialized design projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Canva solving and how is that benefiting you?

Canva addresses our need to create polished, on-brand visuals quickly, without having to rely on a dedicated designer for every single request. Our marketing team regularly produces social graphics, presentations, ads, one-pagers, and broader campaign assets, and before Canva those requests either created bottlenecks or led to inconsistent, off-brand materials. Now, anyone on the team can start with a template and turn out something professional in just minutes. The Brand Kit helps keep our logos, colors, and fonts consistent across everything we publish, which is important for maintaining trust with our audience. Real-time collaboration also reduces the back-and-forth that comes with emailing files and collecting feedback, and Magic Resize makes it easy to adapt one design for multiple channels without rebuilding it each time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.