Canva didn’t even flip the script; they threw it out the window and said: “you don’t need that anymore.”

Here’s everything you missed from last night’s Canva Create, 2025—without the 54-minute confetti-fuelled keynote. 😅

Last night, Canva hosted their annual keynote event, Canva Create, and oh wow… they did not come to play. From live choirs to real-time data visualizations, surprise raps, and AI on every corner—it was a confetti-blasted creativity-meets-productivity event. 

Quoted as the biggest product launch since Canva was founded, I’ll break down what’s hot, what’s new, and what could change how your team works this week. Read on. 

The push for big business

For me, Canva has always been a playful tool for SMBs. Something to compliment a social calendar, and that’s about it. I think it’s perceived the same for many and Canva set off with a push to knock aside that bias. They started with some big dog use cases from Docusign, FedEx, and Disney+. 

Okay, we get it. You want bigger businesses to consider Canva too. So, what’s new? 

1. Visual Suite 2.0: Everything, everywhere, now all in one file

The headline drop? Canva’s new Visual Suite 2.0.

Working across tools for many of us means juggling tabs, coffee, exports, and "final-final-V6-edited" files. Canva listened to the community’s plea.

Now you can create:

• Presentations

• Docs

• Whiteboards

• Videos

• Social Posts

• Print Designs

• and Websites! 🫨

All in the same project file.

Google Docs has a baby with Figma and gives it AI powers. Need a doc to brief your team, a whiteboard, and a full campaign rollout? Cool—do it all in one space. 

Honestly, I’m not sure if dslx will use this. They’re essentially coming after Google Workspace, and it’s going to take a lot of convincing and trust-building for my team to make the switch. But, if someone’s new to needing all of this, I can see the appeal. 

2. Canva Sheets: Spreadsheets dolled up

One thing I loved was how Canva introduced product feature announcements via customer videos—super engaging and building social buy-in. Anywhoo. 

Yep, Canva now has spreadsheets. But, before your eyes glaze over and skip to the next—this isn’t Excel’s uptight aunt.

Canva Sheets is built for visual storytelling and teams that hate (or like me, just don’t know) complex formulas:

• Magic Formulas: Describe the formula in plain English. Canva writes it.

• Magic Insights: Get data analysis in one click.

• Connected to everything—Docs, Presentations, Magic Studio.

Your spreadsheets now power your visuals, not the other way around. This is going to be great for dslx client reports at the end of each month. I’m so over making Excel data even remotely camera-ready. 

3. Magic Studio at Scale: AI 2.0

Canva took its AI game to the next level. Now, with Magic Studio at Scale, you can:

• Generate an entire month’s worth of copy with Magic Write

• Bulk Create hundreds of custom assets with a spreadsheet

• Translate everything into 100+ languages instantly

• Remove all your image backgrounds at once

• Resize for every platform in a couple clicks

This is AI for marketers, brand managers, and content teams that need to move fast. I can see this being insanely useful. I’m dubious about the magic write and translations, even in the demo. I think writing and translating will definitely benefit from some humanizing. But the bulk AI edits and resizing are going to save hours of time that designers hate spending anyway! 

4. Magic Charts: a little tired of the magic references, hoping they tone this down

Magic Charts helps people “turn data into a story.”

Built with Flourish’s powerful engine, which I believe is a startup they acquired a while back, Canva now lets you turn numbers into beautiful, interactive data visualizations—with:

• 25+ chart types (bar, pie, racing, radar, stream... yep!)

• Syncs with Google Analytics, HubSpot, Snowflake, and even public datasets like Statista 🫨

• Fully interactive and embeddable—very cool! 

Also, new Scrollable Docs = perfect for telling deep, visual stories and something dslx will definitely explore for EOM reports.

5. Canva AI: ChatGPT’s competitor more visual competitor 

The new Canva homepage now includes: Canva AI.

Just as with ChatGPT, you can type what you want, and prompt with visuals too:

• “Design a travel guide for Porto”

• “Create a visual itinerary”

• “Generate an ad for my new skincare line using this reference image”

Honestly, the prompting for this type of build still irks me. The whole “in the style of” prompt raises huge questions on intellectual property and copyright laws; it doesn’t sit well with me. On that note, I didn’t see one mention of Canva’s ethical use of AI throughout the keynote—a little concerning. 

6. Canva Code: do we have a Lovable competitor?

This one was wild. Canva Code lets anyone (seriously, they had a kid in the demo lol) build custom interactive widgets and websites or web apps without writing a single line of code.

Just describe what you want—like:

• “Create a quiz for my online course”

• “Make an interactive flashcard game for 8-year-olds”

• “Build a pricing calculator for my agency’s website”

Now, it’s not quite where I know my OG, Lovable, is at. Can we even call things on the market a few months ago OGs already? Are we moving that fast? But, it’s stepping in their general direction. I know Lovable isn’t the only tool out there, so I’ll be interested to see how such an industry giant either pushes them to improve their offering or swallows them up and picks them out of their jaws with a toothpick.

Here’s what it looks like now. 

They closed with a bang, and crash, and a wallop.

The last four minutes were pure chaos. Canva rapid-fired 45+ feature drops in a musical montage with a marching band, a full-blown choir, rapping product managers, and a finale worthy of Eurovision—maybe they’ll go for that too next year?

A few more mini feature releases that got five seconds of fame were: 

• Multi-format page sizes

• Karaoke-style text

• Video timeline upgrades

• AI voiceovers

• Better brand color control

• Subscript/superscript 

• Embedable Widgets

One thing I’m anxious about is how easy this release is going to make the mass production of content. How overwhelming are our digital spaces going to be? How are algorithms going to keep up? How are our minds!?

So, is Canva dictating the future of work? Are other giants finally sitting up, scratching their noggins, and exclaiming: "crap, we better get a move on"? Will Gmail ever update its UI? All great mysteries that will probably be solved by Monday. 

We’re moving fast, people. 

Ketchup! 🍅

As a final ps. There were four minutes of scrolling credits packed with names just like below. FOUR MINUTES. These are all the people that were responsible for helping to put this keynote together. Don’t worry, friend, humans are still very much needed.