Canva unveils new workplace suite to boost your productivity
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Canva has announced a series of new tools that it hopes will attract more customers across a wider range of the industry. And we’re not just talking about a minor update here: there are six major updates and new tools for subscribers to try.
The new updates to the company’s proprietary word processing app, Docs, which offers similar functionality to Google Docs, such as comments for better collaboration and version history for improved productivity. The company also wants to emphasize that users can access its own library of more than 100 million design assets to make their documents more visually appealing.
As part of the update, Canva Presentations also gains a new remote feature that allows presenters to control their presentation from a compatible device.
New Canva Features
The company has also released its own aptly named website building tool. Users can choose from hundreds of “responsive professional-level” templates, as well as add their own domains and add password protection to their sites. Perhaps more interesting to business owners is the Design Insights feature that allows administrators to see analytics such as page visits.
Yet another feature in this comprehensive update gives employees the ability to import metrics into the Data Visualization tool to create interactive visualizations. Like the other newly released tools above, predefined templates are available to make processing as easy as possible.
Furthermore, the Canva Video Suite has received its own upgrade. Users can now remove backgrounds from videos, which the company says eliminates the need for “extensive budgets or complex software.”
And finally, the new Whiteboards app is designed to promote collaboration through brainstorming, with tools such as sticky notes, images and graphics, and an integrated timer to help manage sessions.
With a huge emphasis on simple, visually appealing collaboration and productivity tools, it’s clear that Canva wants to increase its share of the market, and as far as we can see, it’s well on its way to getting its products into more companies.
The company says seamless visual communication will become more important as workplaces become more widespread and communication within those workplaces becomes more visual.
By offering more tools to get the job done, Canva can take a more streamlined approach, helping businesses cut back on unnecessary subscriptions.